 Cuba, almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations has become 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...  The North American Review - Page 7441896Full view - About this book
 | James A. Barry - 1998 - 238 pages
...secretary of state, cited the following as among the factors that gave Cuba its strategic importance: Its commanding position with reference to the Gulf...population; its situation midway between our southern coast and the island of San Domingo; its safe and capacious harbor of ... Havana . . . the nature of... | |
 | Lars Schoultz - 1998 - 500 pages
...what the new President thought about the Caribbean island that John Quincy Adams had once declared "of transcendent importance to the commercial and political interests of our Union." And so, a few weeks after the 1896 election, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge asked him. Cuba "is very much... | |
 | 1999 - 454 pages
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 | James Dunkerley - 2000 - 230 pages
...islands of Cuba and Puerto Rico still remain nominally, and so far really, dependent upon her . . . Cuba, almost in sight of our shores, from a multitude of...the commercial and political interests of our Union . . . there are laws of political as well as physical gravitation; and if an apple severed by the tempest... | |
 | Rodrigo Botero - 2001 - 200 pages
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 | Tom Miller - 2001 - 295 pages
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 | Phillip Thomas Tucker - 2002 - 264 pages
...islands are natural appendages of the North American continent, and one of them [Cuba] almost within sight of our shores, from a multitude of considerations,...importance to the commercial and political interests ofour Union — Its commanding position gives it an importance in the sum ofour national interests... | |
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