Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuba. Provisional President Carlos Mendieta finished his speech at a naval officers' luncheon at Tiscornia Camp across the bay from Havana and sat down. BAM! A huge hole opened in the wall under a stairway, blew a great wind across the room. A seaman and a Navy paymaster stood directly between Mendieta and the stairway. The blast killed both, scratched Mendieta's left hand and wounded a scattering of Cuban officialdom. Said President Mendieta: "It was a terrible surprise but just one of those things." Another of "those things" Spoke two days later from submachine guns...
...should have the right to intervene in Cuba at any time to preserve Cuban independence or U. S. life and property...
...Cuba should maintain proper sanitation to control all epidemics...
...other articles granted the U. S. the right to maintain a naval base in Cuba, and approved the legality of all acts of the U. S. Army in Cuba during the Spanish War. These two articles of the 1903 pact were all that were retained in the treaty...
Significance. The end of the Platt Amendment under which the U. S. once (1906) sent troops to Cuba and again and again dictated the internal affairs of that island republic came with startling suddenness. Not until it was signed did Washington even suspect that a new treaty was in the making. President Roosevelt's immediate purpose in rushing the new pact through at this time was to strengthen the hands of the Mendieta regime which the U. S. helped install in office. Only three weeks ago ex-President Ramon Grau y San Martin returned to Cuba from Mexico...