Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven weeks ago, Secretary of State Kellogg was pleased to hear that Senor Adolfo Diaz had been elected President of Nicaragua by that republic's congress in joint session. With startling speed he sent U. S. recognition to President Diaz, a Conservative, an oldtime friend of the U. S. Department of State, who was recently employed by a U. S. mining company for a few dollars per week. Headline readers in the U. S. said: "Isn't it nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew...
Sharing public interest with the possibility that a professional baseball game was thrown eight years ago is the present fact that something of importance is going to happen in Nicaragua. It is not easy to discover what that something...
From one source we hear that Diaz, head of the constitutional party, is the servile puppet of United States business interests. From another, he is the white hope of law and order. So also, Sacasa, liberal leader, is said to represent "the pee-pul" of Nicaragua in their fight against United States influence and to be a man of the highest integrity and sincerity. From another angle he is probably a Bolshevist agent, whose chief motive for attacking the established power is hope of graft or desire for revenge...
...whether one takes the stand that in interfering in Central America the Coolidge administration, is stretching the Monroe Doctrine to the breaking point, or that Nicaragua is in a tangle that only American Marines can unravel, one thing seems not impossible, War with Mexico may follow. On the Atlantic Coast Admiral Latimer is landing arms and men to pro up Diaz. On the Pacific the Calles government is indulging in a quiet little filibustering in favor of Sacasa...
...support of the government's policy although the reason for his appeal is the opposition to this policy in a large part of the press. Clearly the real purpose is to gag an opposition which is becoming increasingly embarrassing in the pursuit of the highly questionable action toward Nicaragua and Mexico...