A History of the Cuban Republic: A Study in Hispanic American PoliticsMacmillan, 1927 - 685 pages |
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... of all the countries to the south . One may never have set foot in Cuba , but if he has lived in Colombia , Costa Rica , Honduras , or elsewhere below the Rio Grande , the story will come home to him like an experience of his own PREFACE.
... of all the countries to the south . One may never have set foot in Cuba , but if he has lived in Colombia , Costa Rica , Honduras , or elsewhere below the Rio Grande , the story will come home to him like an experience of his own PREFACE.
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... never “ looks . " Oddly enough , this is true even of the women of the street . Other imitations , if such they are , show a similar variance in degree . For example , powder and paint have been adopted with rather too much " enthusiasm ...
... never “ looks . " Oddly enough , this is true even of the women of the street . Other imitations , if such they are , show a similar variance in degree . For example , powder and paint have been adopted with rather too much " enthusiasm ...
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... never lost . This gives tang and sparkle to the whole . Though it covers a considerable area , Havana is a city of easy communications . There is an excellent , wide - reaching street - car service , with a five - cent fare . Ford motor ...
... never lost . This gives tang and sparkle to the whole . Though it covers a considerable area , Havana is a city of easy communications . There is an excellent , wide - reaching street - car service , with a five - cent fare . Ford motor ...
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... never go to bed , and indeed there is considerable activity up to as late as two in the morning . Those who are not riding or walking seat themselves in the wide - open cafés , and watch the passers - by or , more likely , engage in ...
... never go to bed , and indeed there is considerable activity up to as late as two in the morning . Those who are not riding or walking seat themselves in the wide - open cafés , and watch the passers - by or , more likely , engage in ...
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... and dressed in fashionable materials . And yet , people who live in Camagüey , native or foreign , enjoy the city , despite its external drawbacks . On the principle that one should never 16 A HISTORY OF THE CUBAN REPUBLIC.
... and dressed in fashionable materials . And yet , people who live in Camagüey , native or foreign , enjoy the city , despite its external drawbacks . On the principle that one should never 16 A HISTORY OF THE CUBAN REPUBLIC.
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Page 136 - Joint Resolution for the recognition of the independence of the people of Cuba, demanding that the Government of Spain relinquish its authority and government in the Island of Cuba, and to withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and directing the President of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 51 - ... an object of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union. Its commanding position, with reference to the Gulf of Mexico and the West India seas; the character of its population; its situation midway betwen our southern coast and the island of St.
Page 86 - When the inability of Spain to deal successfully with the insurrection has become manifest, and it is demonstrated that her sovereignty is extinct in Cuba for all purposes of its rightful existence, and when a hopeless struggle for its re-establishment has degenerated into a strife, which means nothing more than the useless 35' sacrifice of human life and the utter destruction of the very subjectmatter of the conflict, a situation will be presented in which our obligations to the sovereignty of Spain...
Page 439 - ... the Commission should bear in mind that the government which they are establishing is designed not for our satisfaction, or for the expression of our theoretical views, but for the happiness, peace and prosperity of the people of the Philippine Islands, and the measures adopted should be made to conform to their customs, their habits and even their prejudices, to the fullest extent consistent with the accomplishment of the indispensable requisites of just and effective government.
Page 136 - That the Government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the Government of Cuba.
Page 48 - That would be a price, and I would immediately erect a column on the southernmost limit of Cuba, and inscribe on it a ne plus ultra as to us in that direction.
Page 51 - Havana, fronting a long line of our shores destitute of the same advantage; the nature of its productions and of its wants, furnishing the supplies and needing the returns of a commerce immensely profitable and mutually beneficial,—give it an importance in the sum of our national interests with which that of no other foreign territory can be compared, and little inferior to that which binds the different members of this Union together.
Page 136 - That the government of Cuba consents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, 302 Appendices property, and individual liberty...
Page 132 - November, in the year 1900, to frame and adopt a constitution for the people of Cuba, and, as a part thereof, to provide for and agree with the government of the United States upon the relations to exist between that government and the government of Cuba...
Page 399 - European banks were quite generally failing, two great institutions, the National City Bank of New York and the Royal Bank of Canada, met every obligation.