Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah oi Idaho, of course, orated before crowded galleries ; suggested that the U. S. keep the marines in Nicaragua only long enough to supervise an election, which President Diaz should authorize, to elect a new President. Mr. Borah wound up with stirring generalizations: "Inaugurate a campaign of peace . . . get in touch with the masses...
Last week Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and talked for two and a half hours from a prepared memorandum. Mexico is fomenting the Liberal revolution in Nicaragua which is trying to overthrow the U. S.'s protégé, President Diaz; and behind Mexico are the Bolshevists of Russia, said Mr. Kellogg. He produced documents: 1) a resolution of the Red International of Trade Unions in Moscow, appealing to "the toilers of Latin America"; 2) a speech by an unnamed representative of the American Communist Party, urging his fellows...
...policy in Nicaragua, however, Mr. Kellogg issued a stern statement: "From the beginning of the trouble a year ago, the United States has offered its good offices and exerted its influence to compose the difficulty. The same attitude has existed ever since Diaz was elected president, nor is any change contemplated...
Meanwhile, President Diaz of Nicaragua, who, with the aid of U. S. marines, saw a victory over the Liberals looming, outlined a peace plan for his citizens...
Liberal President Juan Sacasa of Nicaragua (recognized by Mexico) protested loudly, last week, the assertions of President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg that he is receiving arms from Mexico (see p. 6). He declared that his soldiers are equipped with U. S. Army pattern Enfield rifles purchased in Manhattan and transshipped across the U. S. and Mexico to Nicaragua...