Word: soubriquet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 the soubriquet of "Wrong horse Harry," and applied it to Cuba. The effect of this has been to make any real stability in that country impossible, for nonrecognition according to the Doctrine carries a tacit implication of disapproval. Any government that attempts to maintain itself in the shadow of American condemnation leads...