A History of the Cuban Republic: A Study in Hispanic American PoliticsMacmillan, 1927 - 685 pages |
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... quoted paragraphs . A debt of gratitude is due , however , to a great many persons for help , but especially to Francisco de Paulo Coronado and Carlos Trelles , heads respectively of the National Library and the Library of the House of ...
... quoted paragraphs . A debt of gratitude is due , however , to a great many persons for help , but especially to Francisco de Paulo Coronado and Carlos Trelles , heads respectively of the National Library and the Library of the House of ...
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... acquisition of Cuba as a Quoted in Moore , John Bassett , in Forum , v . XXI , pp . 288-300 , at The question of Cuban belligerency , 300 ; May , 1896 . state in the American Union at a price of not THE UNITED STATES AND CUBA , TO 1895 61.
... acquisition of Cuba as a Quoted in Moore , John Bassett , in Forum , v . XXI , pp . 288-300 , at The question of Cuban belligerency , 300 ; May , 1896 . state in the American Union at a price of not THE UNITED STATES AND CUBA , TO 1895 61.
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... . He did desire help in the form of shipments of ammunition 1 See statement of John Bassett Moore , quoted infra , pp . 643-645 . and the prevention of supplies from reaching the Spaniards . THE CUBAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE , 1895-1898 91.
... . He did desire help in the form of shipments of ammunition 1 See statement of John Bassett Moore , quoted infra , pp . 643-645 . and the prevention of supplies from reaching the Spaniards . THE CUBAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE , 1895-1898 91.
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... quoted infra , pp . 643-645 . 4 ' Quoted in Martínez Ortiz , I , 112 . occupancy the United States was to " advise any government 94 A HISTORY OF THE CUBAN REPUBLIC.
... quoted infra , pp . 643-645 . 4 ' Quoted in Martínez Ortiz , I , 112 . occupancy the United States was to " advise any government 94 A HISTORY OF THE CUBAN REPUBLIC.
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... year . Encouragement of foreign capital might • Extract from the report of the Secretary of War for 1900 , quoted in Root , 193 . have proved helpful to bring the island out of the 104 A HISTORY OF THE CUBAN REPUBLIC.
... year . Encouragement of foreign capital might • Extract from the report of the Secretary of War for 1900 , quoted in Root , 193 . have proved helpful to bring the island out of the 104 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.