Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plutarco Munoz announced that the Honduran rebels were backed by Nicaragua's Augusto Sandino, and "Communists," these from Havana...
...Nicaragua, U. S. citizens and other aliens in the little towns along the Mosquito Coast waited breathlessly for a repetition of the bandit raids which caused the slaughter at Logtown fortnight ago (TIME, April 27). In Washington Secretary Stimson stood firm under the lashings of Big Stick Advocates. The new Hoover-Stimson Nicaraguan policy was backed up by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson with an announcement to the effect that Britain, too, will not attempt to protect her nationals in Nicaragua's interior...
Assured of cruisers, United Fruit, from its Boston headquarters, announced that no U. S. lives or property were so far endangered by the fighting in Honduras. While hecklers charged that the revolt was directly connected with the withdrawal order for Nicaragua, Secretary Stimson was advised by U. S. Minister Lay at Tegucigalpa that the uprising had no large political backing, would soon "fizzle...
...Other U. S. investments in Central America: Guatemala $69,000,000; Salvador, $29,000,000; Costa Rica, $22,000,000; Nicaragua...
...Spot. Few large Chinese cities have remained long in Red hands, even on the sore spot. Troops loyal to President Chiang Kai-shek police it, operating from Hankow, with somewhat less success than U. S. Marines have had in Nicaragua...