Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington can give its Cuban policy two different forms. It can reverse the traditional American Carribean diplomacy by treating the Platt Amendment as a dead letter, eschewing intervention, and extending immediate recognition and moral support to the present regime; or it can land troops in Cuba, restore order, and see that a stable representative government is established. The adoption of either of these courses would calm the chaotic situation now existing and make some sort of recovery possible for the unhappy island. Instead of doing this Secretary Hull has resurrected the thoroughly discredited Stimson Doctrine, which gained for its originator...
...virtue is that it does not commit the State Department to anything and lets it straddle the real issue of whether C'ba is to be allowed to govern itself or is to be an American dependency. Inasmuch as its only effect is to prolong the misery of the Cuban people, it should be abandoned immediately and for it substituted a clear and forceful policy...
...branch (at $19,000 a year), had turned out to be absolutely useless for any purpose except entertaining clients; that Machado had used up $9,000,000 of a $12,000,000 pension trust fund. Other letters declared that $18,000,000 had been spent unnecessarily in rebuilding the Cuban Cap itol, that the whole Machado Cabinet had big graft in construction of Havana's waterworks. Finally Inquisitor Pecora himself dammed up the flood of epistolary candor, suppressed one paragraph and a whole memorandum because ''it might lead to acts of violence in Cuba...
...Committee's criticisms of the Chase's operations in Cuba: that the Chase had gotten $40,000,000 owed to it by Cuba refunded into Cuban bonds which were then sold to the U. S. public; that the Chase had in effect unloaded on the public, since Cuba then had a deficit of $7,000,000 for the previous year (not mentioned in the prospectus for the bonds); that the Chase and its associates had taken some $3,000,000 for financing and refinancing $80,000,000 in Cuban loans...
...Wiggin. While Inquisitor Pecora was digging into Cuban matters, he paused and, without comment, put into the record a curt letter written the day before...