Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deplore the landing of U. S. Marines in Nicaragua, the U. S. military occupation of Haiti. I will not send troops to Cuba under any circumstances, believing that the responsibility for preserving law and order in Cuba should be shared by all American Governments alike. I invite them to exert diplomatic pressure at once to settle the turbulent state of Cuban political affairs...
Only rift in the Conference proceedings came when Cuban Chief Delegate Angel Giraudy interrupted a debate to say: "I declare with deliberation that the United States is intervening in Cuba, strongly intervening! No United States Marines have landed, but the United States has been engaged in intrigue against our president and his Government through Ambassador Sumner Welles [see p. 15]. If that is not intervention, what...
...American Conference at Montevideo (see p. 12), the Cuban Government denounced Ambassador Welles for "intrigue" against President Grau San Martin. In Havana, despite the traditional close-mouthed clannishness of diplomats, Mr. Welles was also denounced by Dr. Fernandez y Medina, the Uruguayan Minister to Cuba. For the past month Dr. Fernandez has been negotiating among Cuban politicians with an aim similar to that usually ascribed to Mr. Welles, namely, to obtain by peaceful persuasion the resignation of Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin as President and the formation of a coalition government which would hold a fair Cuban election...
Frankly jubilant as Ambassador Welles hopped off was Tom Pettey, ebullient New York Herald Tribune newsman, who has covered Cuba's series of revolutions with zeal and zest...
...Welles still is very much in the picture, as regards Cuban affairs, for he is returning to an important State Department post at Washington, and undoubtedly will have the last say in any decision concerning Cuba. Nevertheless, only a certain inelegant word describes what awaits the unfortunate [Assistant Secretary of State] Jefferson Caffery, who is to replace Mr. Welles, and that is the word 'mess...