Word: hooverizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Riot and bloodshed had occurred in what Secretary of State Stimson characterized as "an exceedingly serious situation." President Hoover, alarmed, sent a special message to Congress, asked for another commission of investigation. Since 1915 when President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam was publicly butchered* and revolution and carnage reigned, the U. S. has exercised a virtual protectorate over Haiti. Under a 1916 treaty, U. S. armed forces are in the republic for three purposes: 1) to protect U. S. lives and property; 2) to help support a stable government and suppress cannibalistic bandits; 3) to prevent, by administering the Haitian customs, European...
President Hoover was deeply disturbed by these events. At the request of High Commissioner Russell, he gave terse orders to Secretary of the Navy Adams. Quickly out of Hampton Roads sailed the U. S. S. Wright bearing a detachment of 500 Marines to supplement the force of 700 already in Haiti. From Guantanamo Bay steamed away the cruiser Galveston, bound for Jacmel where an arms smuggling plot was supposed to have been uncovered...
...White House in peaceful mood went a delegation led by Mrs. Stephen Pell of New York to ask President Hoover's assistance in their crusade...
Last week the spotlight of world attention focused on another U. S. diplomat. With his pockets stuffed with authorizations from President Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson, Jay Pierrepont Moffat, U. S. Chargé D'Affaires at Berne,* traveled from London to Geneva to sign World Court articles of adherence once more...
...were transferred to a division of protocol in the state department. Attaché Moffat's most important previous diplomatic work was with the U. S. Legation in Warsaw during Soviet Russia's brief attempt to conquer Poland in 1920-days that brought him in touch with Herbert Hoover and Cardinal Achille Ratti, now Pope Pius XI. In a dingy Geneva office, proudly titled the Treaty Registration Room of the League of Nations Secretariat, he carefully signed three state papers, then retired to Berne...