Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marine Corps does not sing Christmas carols. When it is Christmas in the Marine Corps, "the toughest soldiers in the world" on foreign duty sometimes startle the natives by dressing a Christmas tree under the tropic sun, or?as in Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown...
With Christmas at hand, a picture of the world distribution of U. S. Marines was published last week in the annual report of the No.1 U. S. Marine, Major General Wendell Gushing Neville. In Nicaragua were 1,800, in Haiti 887,* in the Virgin Islands 111, in Guam 572, Philippines 215, Hawaii 395, Shanghai 1,049 Peking 486, not to count the men aboard Navy ships around the world...
...posted 14,228 Army officers and men in Hawaii, 8,784 in the Canal Zone, 5,770 (exclusive of the Scouts) in the Philippines, 1,012 at Tientsin, China. One hundred and fifty U. S. Army engineers are spending Christmas surveying a new canal route across Nicaragua...
Imperial U. S. Not by military force but by economic power does the U. S. exert its imperial will. By shutting off loans to lagging debtors it forced settlement of the War Debts. Its agents administer the finances of Bolivia, Salvador, Liberia, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Santo Domingo. U. S. Citizen Seymour Parker Gilbert holds the purse strings of German Reparations as formulated by U. S. Citizens Charles Gates Dawes and Owen D. Young...
...After disturbances a fortnight ago Haiti was last week quiescent. Political organizations asked President Hoover to supply U. S. supervision for the April elections, as was done last year in Nicaragua. Arrests were only for violation of the 9 p. m. curfew under martial law. President Borno's daughter Madeleine was ceremoniously taken to wife by Daniel Brun, architect. Additional Marines dispatched aboard the U. S. S. Wright were diverted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the U. S. House of Representatives moved to give President Hoover the investigating commission he had asked for (TIME...