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What Secretary Stimson left to Philippine officials to say was that such a sugar duty would inflame the Islands to fresh demands for independence...
Secretary of State Stimson last week found his desk strewn with vexatious matters appertaining to that troublesome, vermiform little neighbor, Cuba. As President Hoover's foreign minister, Statesman Stimson had to keep abreast of Cuba's internal disorders, of which several were stirring last week. Complaints centred chiefly about President Gerardo Machado...
Herbert Hoover, as President-Elect skipped Cuba on his Latin-American tour this year. Significant or not, this omission was sufficient to bring out of the shadows all the anti-Machado agitators in the U. S. and to guide their footsteps to Secretary Stimson's door with requests that "something be done...
...life, property and individual liberty. ..." It was under this authority that the U. S. Army occupied Cuba from 1906 to 1909 to suppress uprisings and restore constitutional government. On the theory that Cuban sovereignty can be suspended at will by the U. S. under the Platt Amendment, Secretary Stimson is being implored by anti-Machadoists to see the "unconstitutional" character of that president's regime, the suppression of "individual liberty." the lack of protection for "property...
...this score Secretary Stimson last week had these things to consider...