Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, acting through Secretary of State Kellogg, formally notified Nicaragua that the U. S. would support the government of President Adolfo Diaz...
...laws is more likely to be correct than the interpretation of a foreign power. There have been certain indications that our government realizes that its case is none too strong. It was inadvertently revealed this week that the sensational newspaper stories on Mexican Bolshevist propaganda in Nicaragua were inspired by those "higher up in Washington" to incite further resentment in the United States against the present Mexican government. In view of this revelation it may fairly be asked, how much of the uninformed and unreliable propaganda last summer against the Mexican religious laws was inspired by those higher up. Such...
Then in the reign of Robert II, the 14th lineal hair of Oldman, gold was discovered in the Mosquito realm. Santos Zelaya, the heavy-fisted dictator of Nicaragua, promptly led an invading army into the Indian territory. Thus perished in 1894, after a short, sharp struggle, the sovereignty of the Mosquito Kings. Soldiers of fortune, gold-hunters, and all the scavengers of the Caribbean flocked into the conquered realm. Guatemala emerged after several years of political juggling, the owner of the Mosquito coast...
...corpuscles. In California where playboys dent the bars with their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes that "America must round her territories by the sea," that he must help her by becoming the Napoleon of Nicaragua. Peter drinks deep of destiny, joins him. On the squalid, turbulent breast of Central America, they achieve momentary success. There is all the usual panoply of historical romance: the storming of ancient citadels, the intrigue of Bourbon-breath'd henchmen, the moneyed powers, the lovely Senorita de Avila who dies...
Upon the U. S. cruiser Rochester, anchored off the east coast of Nicaragua, Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer received last week representatives of the unrecognized de facto government of Nicaragua and the militant leader of Nicaragua's revolutionaries, General Jose Maria Moncada. President Chamorro of Nicaragua conveyed through his representatives the terms of an armistice which he was willing to conclude with the embattled revolutionaries (TIME, May 17 et seq.). General Moncada accepted the terms of armistice with slight modifications. Loomed a peace conference under U. S. auspices, at which Usurper Chamorro, and the "revolutionaries" (really "counter revolutionaries...