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Touching upon the recent accusations of American misgovernment in Hayti and Santo Domingo, Admiral Benson stated that such charges were absolutely false and without foundation...
...American army and navy have never been used to subjugate any people or with any wrong intent", he declared. "The Navy and Marine Corps have done wonderful work in Hayti and Santo Domingo. When the new administration came into power a careful investigation was made of conditions in these countries, and it was found that the naval and marine government had made no mistakes, but had greatly improved conditions...
...Army airplanes completed a 6,000-mile flight, begun on March 3 at Kelly Field, San Antonio, covering Havana, Port au Prince, Santo Domingo, and ending at Bolling Field, Washington...
Colonel A. T. Marix, Minister of Justice, Education, and Foreign Relations, has made his report on the American administration of Santo Domingo, and everybody is happy. At the request of France, England, and Germany, he says, the Americans took over the management of the island, for the sake. I suppose, of the Proteus excogitated by Monroe in 1823. Why the Monroe Doctrine was not called forth from the summit of the Olympus when the British occupied the Falkland Islands in 1832, or when a Spanish fleet bombarded Cuzeo and blockaded that and other Chilean ports in 1866, or, what...
...difficulties were encountered in restoring the shattered finances of the state, caused by excessive borrowing from other countries. It was only at the urgent request of France, England, and Germany that the United States assumed charge of the finances, for these powers threatened to seize the custom houses of Santo Domingo if the interest on the loans was, not paid immediately...