Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambassador Caffery was required to take his risky stroll because at that very hour in Washington the U. S. was making over its diplomatic relations with Cuba. At the State Department, Secretary Hull and Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, Cuba's Ambassador, were signing a treaty to replace the fundamental compact made between the U. S. and Cuba in 1903. The new agreement omitted the famed "Platt Amendment...
There are no amendments to a treaty, but in 1901, after Cuba had been freed from Spain and pacified by U. S. arms, Senator Orville H. Platt* of Connecticut succeeded in having an amendment attached to that year's Army appropriation bill. On the strength of that amendment the following terms were written into the treaty later made with the new Republic of Cuba...
...Cuba should be forbidden to enter into any treaty with any other nation that would tend to impair her independence...
...Cuba should not contract any debts which she could not service out of her ordinary revenues...
...reduce the yearly budgets voted in 1931 from $4,225,000 to $2,898,000 to $2,716,855. Besides a deficit of $529,000 incurred last year, a 1934 deficit of $500,000 impends. If this is not made up the National Council may abandon missionary work in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska where venerable Peter Trimble Rowe has been laboring as bishop for 40 years...