Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aboard the Sequoia he had to wait a half-hour for his son James to arrive by army plane from Boston and join his party. To kill time he summoned Col. Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams, commander of the 7th Regiment, to the Sequoia's deck, discussed the Cuban situation with him, told him what would be expected of him and his men if sent to intervene...
...direct to Havana." "Have you special instructions from the President?" "No special instructions," and Secretary Swanson marched off to pack his bags. Within an hour big black headlines blazoned to the country the news that President Roosevelt was rushing his Secretary of the Navy to the heart of the Cuban crisis, presumably to command the U. S. naval demonstration already under way off Havana. Not stopping to read a newspaper Secretary Swanson motored to Annapolis, kissed his wife goodby, went speeding down Chesapeake Bay on the Navy's finest and newest heavy cruiser...
...water before its wireless began to crackle irritably with messages from Washington. The President was seriously annoyed by Secretary Swanson's impromptu sound-off on the White House steps. The Navy's chief well knew there was no connection between his cruise to the Pacific and the Cuban crisis. He ceased his happy strutting long enough to radio a public message to his Washington office : "A wholly erroneous interpretation has been given to my trip. This trip to the west Coast was planned, as every one knows, a month ago. ... I told Ambassador Welles I would drop...
...confidence on foreign policy. He had asked for no specific support from their Governments but his candor and tact won him a favorable reaction throughout the hemisphere. Two days later Mexico, on its own initiative, asked Argentina, Brazil and Chile to join with it in impressing upon the Cuban Junta the necessity for a law & order government. While President Roosevelt was backing away from intervention diplomatically, his precautionary plans for military action went forward full blast. He did not intend to exert force but if he had to, he was going to be fully prepared to strike hard and fast...
...that his naval demonstration, excitingly described in the Press, might stir up hot antagonism in Cuba. To newshawks he objected to the use of such phrases as "an armada of U. S. warships" in the Caribbean. He explained that, except for the Mississippi and Richmond, all the vessels in Cuban waters were "little bits of things," incapable of landing a force sufficient to occupy the island. He pointed out that Cuba is 700 mi. long, that many ships were needed to patrol its shore line. No force had been put ashore and none would be unless serious disorders developed. Cuba...