Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since no public building seemed a safe place to inaugurate Provisional President de Cespedes he gave an inaugural garden party at 9:30 a. m. on the wide terrace of his handsome house. Flashing-eyed Cuban ladies embraced each other and their escorts with patriotic fervor as eight judges of the Cuban Supreme Court arrived majestically in their black robes. No foreign envoy, not even U. S. Ambassador Welles, was present. Amid sizzling heat Dr. Cespedes. perspiring in formal morning clothes, took this brief oath: "I swear faithfully to fulfill the duties of President of the Republic and enforce...
...nightfall the new Government, consisting as yet only of Dr. de Cespedes, wanted some prop more stable than Cuban soldiers, many of whom were frankly on the loose. Ambassador Welles, constantly in telephonic touch with President Roosevelt, abruptly announced that three U. S. destroyers were steaming full speed for Cuba. With relief Provisional President de Cespedes cried, "The order of President Roosevelt sending three American naval ships to Cuba for the protection of American lives and property was issued with my full knowledge and approval. It carries no implication of intervention...
...sighed with relief at this statement which, they hoped, would check any Latin-American tendency to charge the U. S. with again intervening in Cuba under the Platt Amendment. In 1901 the U. S. Senate tacked onto the U. S. Army Appropriation Bill an amendment, later incorporated into the Cuban Constitution, providing that "the Government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence" or for "the maintenance of a Government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty" in Cuba. Written originally as fire insurance, this amendment...
...Sugar Deal? Discussing Cuba with White House correspondents, President Roosevelt minimized the Cuban general strike and the Army coup d'état. He emphasized the Congressional procedure by which Dr. de Cespedes became Provisional President, and that "the change was in entire accord with the Constitution and laws...
...boom collapsed. In 1924 Conservatives and Liberals united to elect Gerardo Machado who was hailed as a "businessman President" much as was Herbert Hoover later. President Machado has cooperated actively in the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction, but with U. S. tariffs soaring higher and higher against Cuban sugar the business of government in Havana became more and more that of preserving order among an impoverished and rebellious people by methods increasingly brutal. What Cuba needs, if her problems are to be solved realistically, is a new sugar deal from Washington...