Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sept. 15, 1821 Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala all declared their independence from Spain. Last week a punctilious State Department sent the President of each little republic an anniversary message signed Herbert Hoover. Costa Rica got "hearty congratulations." Nicaragua "cordial felicitations," Honduras "best wishes," Guatemala "cordial greetings...
...eastern Asia are objects of oppression by the white people. This fact is undeniable and imperial Japan should no longer let their impudence go unpunished. . . . The United States loudly professes to champion righteousness and humanity, but what can you think when you review its policy toward Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua and other Latin American nations? Nowhere in the society of nations do we find the pacific spirit which we call Japanese 'kultur.' We must shake our fist in their faces...
...Empire conference at Ottawa. . . . We must again look to England and Europe for markets for our products. . . . The United States should never again speak to us about 'Pan-Americanism,' as that word from now on is without soul and without force. We have seen what happened in Nicaragua and Haiti...
...fast as a 300-lb. diplomat can, O-shaped Carlos Morales of Nicaragua flees photographers. Only three prints of one picture of him are known to exist in the U. S. One he owns; one belongs to Dr. Luis M. Debayle, Nicaraguan chargé d'affaires at Washington; one to the Pan American Union, which issued it to the Press when Sr. Morales sought to persuade the U. S. State Department to keep President Jose Maria Moncada in power a few more years by "supervising" Nicaraguan elections. On publication of his picture Carlos Morales pointed a furious finger at Luis Debayle...
...diablo!" shouted Sr. Morales. "For that much money I can buy one ton of bananas in Nicaragua...