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There are no amendments to a treaty, but in 1901, after Cuba had been freed from Spain and pacified by U. S. arms, Senator Orville H. Platt* of Connecticut succeeded in having an amendment attached to that year's Army appropriation bill. On the strength of that amendment the following terms were written into the treaty later made with the new Republic of Cuba...
Significance. The end of the Platt Amendment under which the U. S. once (1906) sent troops to Cuba and again and again dictated the internal affairs of that island republic came with startling suddenness. Not until it was signed did Washington even suspect that a new treaty was in the making. President Roosevelt's immediate purpose in rushing the new pact through at this time was to strengthen the hands of the Mendieta regime which the U. S. helped install in office. Only three weeks ago ex-President Ramon Grau y San Martin returned to Cuba from Mexico...
...With the Platt Amendment definitely off the books, the Presidents of the two republics might well hope that anti-U. S. outbursts like last fortnight's attack on U. S. diplomats would cease...
...property of its citizens in case of danger, as it has done on occasion in Nicaragua, Haiti, Mexico. Moreover, under the Monroe Doctrine the U. S. still preserves its policy of refusing any European nation the opportunity to acquire a foothold in Latin America. By giving up the Platt Amendment the U. S. therefore gave up virtually nothing of practical importance, while winning the kindly regard of those nations to the South which have long looked with open skepticism upon U. S. protestations of Pan-American equality...
...confused with his more famed colleague, Senator Thomas C. (''Me Too") Platt of New York...