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...making over its diplomatic relations with Cuba. At the State Department, Secretary Hull and Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, Cuba's Ambassador, were signing a treaty to replace the fundamental compact made between the U. S. and Cuba in 1903. The new agreement omitted the famed "Platt Amendment...
...editors yesterday, his effect on Mr. Johnson's digestion was evidently not quite so satisfactory. His attack on the NRA can satisfy neither its most prominent critics nor its most prominent supporters. In short it has more or less the effect of a Parkhurst sermon in uniting Republican boss Platt and Tammany boss Croker...
Washington, March 29--The Platt Amendment should be abolished and the Cuban people should be given the opportunity to stand upon their own foot politically Summer Welles, assistant secretary of State and former American Ambassador to Cuba, declared tonight in a speech be- fore the Young Democratic Clubs of America...
Welles said the right of the American government to intervene in Cuba, bestowed by the Platt Amendment, had been grossly abused by American financial interests operating in Cuba
...visiting lecturer outlined the history of Cuba since the Spanish-American War. He blamed the Reciprocity Treaties and the Platt Amendment for most of the difficulties which have brought about the economic condition causing the present crisis. "The Administration," said Professor Buell, "appreciates this, and is desirous of economic reform. But, having failed to manage successfully the first revolution, the State Department hesitates to adopt any positive policy toward the existing Grau government." Professor Buell believes, however, that the United States must soon recognize the Cuban Government, and enter immediately into a reconsideration of the reciprocity treaties, and support...