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Washington can give its Cuban policy two different forms. It can reverse the traditional American Carribean diplomacy by treating the Platt Amendment as a dead letter, eschewing intervention, and extending immediate recognition and moral support to the present regime; or it can land troops in Cuba, restore order, and see that a stable representative government is established. The adoption of either of these courses would calm the chaotic situation now existing and make some sort of recovery possible for the unhappy island. Instead of doing this Secretary Hull has resurrected the thoroughly discredited Stimson Doctrine, which gained for its originator...
...Villa Turicum," a 206-acre Lake Forest estate with 52 -room Italian palace de signed by the late Charles Adams Platt, once worth $2,500,000, went last week in a sheriff's sale to American National Bank & Trust Co., which held judgment against...
...Public Works. Not a cent had been paid to ex-President Machado or other officials. Later Chase Vice President Shepard Morgan admitted that General Enoch Crowder, then U. S. Ambassador to Cuba, had given "a horseback opinion that the $100,000,000 project would be in violation of the Platt Amendment" and that he had "threatened immediate protest to the State Department.'' This particular loan was never made, but not long afterwards while ex-President Machado's son-in-law was a Chase new-business man in Havana on a salary of $19,000 a year, other...
Andover: l.e., Little, Calmers; l.t., Fry, Fletcher, Dubois; l.g., Castle, Schueler; c., Kellog; r.g., Sears; r.t., Hite; r.e., Gernerd, Moody, Stevens; q.b., Burdick, Knowlton; l.h.b., Rafferty, York: r.h.b., Viens, Rafferty; f.b., Platt, Chaney...
...United States, to avoid suspicion of imperialism, has merely been abstaining until conditions in Cuba shout for a mediator, certainly the time for intervention is now propitious. To ignore such wholesale slaughter as has recently taken place on Havana streets will extract what few teeth the much interpreted Platt Amendment has left, and establish a precedent which will make intervention in Cuba by the United States at any future date difficult or impossible...