Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech delivered at the Liberal Club yesterday afternoon, C. H. Haring '07, Professor of Latin-American History at Harvard, briefly outlined the background of our relations with Nicaragua. At 1:30 o'clock today, at the Liberal Club J. F. Moors, a member of the Corporation and Fellow of the University, will argue against intervention...
...United States and Mexico first intervened jointly, in Central America, in 1906 stated Professor Haring. "Our purpose was to re-establish peace between Guatemala and Salvador. In 1907 Nicaragua and Honduras went to war and the United States and Mexico again mediated, the countries agreeing to submit future disputes to the arbitration of the mediating powers. This was followed by the Washington treaties of 1907. We were trying to establish peace in Central America...
Wednesday Mr. J. F. Moors, a member of the Corporation and a Fellow of the University, will give the arguments against intervention. He has been prominent in the formation of the Cotton's Committee on American Relations with Nicaragua and Mexico...
...moved within 24 hours to a point off the Mexican coast, should the Mexican Government fulfill its announced determination to seize certain U. S. oil lands in Mexico as "forfeited" under the new Mexican oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926). Thus the U. S. forces sent to Nicaragua last week constitute a two-edged threat...
...Calvin Coolidge has shot his bolt. He's dead. His official spokesman is a spiritualist. And then take the matter of these people down in Nicaragua. I have never been acquainted with many of them, although one never knows whom he's going to meet in Cambridge. Yet I have a friend who is engaged to one and he says he really likes her. In fact he prefers her to the Roumanian outfit. Now she's probably representative of a lot of that bunch down there. Good fellows who like a little war once in a while...