Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of recent complications, however, it becomes increasingly evident that further delay in intervention will not be to the benefit of Cuba. Supported by an irresponsible soldiery, the student government of Grau San Martin seems incapable of maintaining itself. The Cuban citizen who has dodged bullets, seen his stores looted by drunken musketeers, and suffered from complete paralysis of commercial activity under the present regime will hardly welcome the opportunity of doing likewise under whatever transitory power may emceed it. It is conceivable that such a conservative, every day sort of Cuban might consider this "give Cuba another chance" attitude...
...failure of the United States to Intervene in Cuba during the last few days of disorder has caused much comment in the press. On the whole, opinion is that the administration does well to "give Cuba another chance," as the Transcript has it, and that a continuation of the watchful waiting policy is desirable...
...United States, to avoid suspicion of imperialism, has merely been abstaining until conditions in Cuba shout for a mediator, certainly the time for intervention is now propitious. To ignore such wholesale slaughter as has recently taken place on Havana streets will extract what few teeth the much interpreted Platt Amendment has left, and establish a precedent which will make intervention in Cuba by the United States at any future date difficult or impossible...
...progress and the strong possibility of its expansion in the future; they argue the irreconcilability of the opposing factions and declare that even a dictatorship of the Machado stamp is preferable to anarchy. There is some logical force behind this stand: as long as a large part of Cuba wants a government which is wholly inconsistent with American economic domination, a stalemate, or worse, can be the only result. But the interventionists miss the real point, as usual with such simple reactions to complicated problems, they attack the symptom and ignore the disease...
What really overthrew Machado, killed the officers of the Plaza Hotel, and pitched Cuba into an anarchy from which, it appears, only a brutal rule can pull her, was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1929. The very gentle ex-Senator Smoot of Utah, who alternates his campaign for literary purity with an effective defense of Western and Southern United States sugar concerns, was able in this piece of legislation largely to exclude Cuban sugar from the American market, thus in a rather short space of time ruining the island's main industry, provoking the violent unrest born of poverty which...