Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nicaragua. If the U. S. is prosecuting a "war" and not a "police expedition" in Nicaragua, Congress did not declare the "war." Yet Congress alone may make war. Democrats and irregular Republicans have been introducing resolutions, backed by literal arguments, to bring the "war" question to a vote. Chairman Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee threw his weight in with Administration Senators to keep the question in abeyance, at least until President Coolidge returned from the Pan-American Congress. Then, last fortnight, Senator Borah said he favored an Inquiry into the whole Nicaraguan affair and a complete reformulation...
...Every American who is proud of being an American should be proud of the American Marines in Nicaragua...
Such was a mature opinion, expressed last week by Major General John Archer Lejeune, famed "Biggest Leatherneck of All," Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps. He had just completed a thoroughgoing personal inspection (TIME, Jan. 16) of Marine activities throughout Nicaragua. Last week as he went aboard the cruiser Rochester, at Corinto, Nicaragua, and prepared to sail for Panama, "Leatherneck" Lejeune delivered heavy parting shots as follows: "The boys are well liked by the Nicaraguans. At every place I visited, Nicaraguans greeted me cordially. I was able to visit these places and get first hand information. I appreciate conditions...
Interesting observations on the shifting attitude of the public toward the U. S. policy in Nicaragua can be made in those great American meeting halls of thought and opinion, the movie palaces. A month ago, the news reel of Marines embarking, if accompanied by martial music and a flash of the Stars and Stripes was good for a creditable demonstration, hand clapping and whistling trailing off into original and gratuitous noises. A similar picture at Boston's largest theatre this week was received with a cold and stony silence. Not so at the Harvard's own University Theatre. Here...
...seem obstinately determined to send it packing to its destruction. It appears that the United States is rich and materialistic as was the Roman Empire, and that post hoc, ergo propter hoc, is good and appropriate Latin. But on consideration, other parallels are evident. The tributary nations, such as Nicaragua and Mexico, are departing from fealty; missionaries are retiring in fear before savage Chinese warlords; Europeans look with greed on American wealth. Luxury is creeping in; laborers in linen collars sprawl in scented cinema palaces and forget about capitalism. In the Capitol, Caligula Heflin rails against religion, and tortures...