Word: protects
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago. Acting on instructions from the Department of State, Rear Admiral Latimer set about to maintain the Bluefields neutral zone, ordered armed forces of both factions not to enter therein, reported that he had the situation well in hand. Presumably, he was on the Mosquito Coast to protect the lives and properties of U. S. citizens...
...more pertinent reason for Rear Admiral Latimer's presence was the fact that President Diaz's forces had been defeated by the Liberals. After all, if the U. S. is going to have a protégé in Nicaragua, it might as well protect him by armed intervention...
...days later, after a conference with Secretary Kellogg, Senator Borah was calm and satisfied that the U. S. had sent Marines to Nicaragua only to protect its citizens. Cautiously, he added: "We should be vigilant against being tricked into intervention." What will be the next state of mind of the man from Idaho, no one knows...
...Some one has said they were there to protect the American Continent from the spread of Bolshevism. Only those simple-minded souls who still believe in a Santa Glaus can be fooled by such hypocrisy...
...Odessa and Cherson in the Ukraine, famine conditions became so aggravated last week that martial law was proclaimed and troops were ordered out to protect the state grain elevators from mobs of hungry workers...