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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: United States newspaper coverage of the island, gathered and translated for readers in both languagesLa República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: la cobertura de la isla en los periódicos de Estados Unidos, reunida y traducida para lectores en ambos idiomas
October 18, 194018 de octubre de 1940 · Washington, D.C. · The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura

The Washington daily news

SourceFuente: The Washington daily news · Washington, D.C. · October 18, 194018 de octubre de 1940
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82016181/1940-10-18/ed-1/?sp=48

In contextEn contexto

The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura · 1924–1960

Rafael Trujillo ruled for 31 years. US papers reported the 1930 hurricane that leveled Ciudad Trujillo, the 1937 Haitian massacre, sugar commerce, WWII U-boat sinkings, Tito Mella's Compañía Naviera Dominicana shipping fleet, and Trujillo's Washington lobbying.Rafael Trujillo gobernó durante 31 años. La prensa informó sobre el huracán de 1930, la masacre de 1937, el azúcar, hundimientos de submarinos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la flota de la Compañía Naviera Dominicana de Tito Mella.

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In the *Washington Daily News*, columnist Ludwell Denny discussed executive war powers and unilateral presidential foreign actions without congressional approval. Denny cited historical precedents where American presidents ruled foreign territories directly or through puppets, specifically referencing past interventions in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua.

En *The Washington Daily News*, el columnista Ludwell Denny analizó las facultades bélicas del Poder Ejecutivo y las decisiones unilaterales de política exterior tomadas por presidentes estadounidenses sin aprobación legislativa. Denny trajo a colación precedentes históricos en que mandatarios norteamericanos gobernaron comarcas foráneas directamente o valiéndose de gobernantes títeres, aludiendo puntualmente a las intervenciones militares pasadas en Haití, la República Dominicana y Nicaragua.

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The passage where this article was found, copied from the newspaper page itself, reading errors and all. This is exactly what the summary above is based on.El pasaje donde se encontró este artículo, copiado de la propia página del periódico, con sus errores de lectura y todo. Esto es exactamente aquello en lo que se basa el resumen de arriba.

fused to ratify. The 1905 Roosevelt-

Japanese secret agreement.

Some of these single-handed execu

tive agreements make foreign alliances:

The Japanese-Anglo-American alliance

of 1905 Our p-rsent far-reaching alli

ance with Canada, and our presumptive

alliance with Britain (terms unknown*.

AN WAGE WAR

Tire President can send expeditionary

forces and fig! t wars overseas without

a congressional declaration of war or

consultation For many years tills was

almost a habit in Caribbean countries.

Wilson waged undeclared war In

Siberia.

The Presiden' can even conquer for

eign tern lory and rule it thru his own

SUPPLIES W

iBIGGESTJUraWi

By LUDWELL DENNY

agents or with native puppets—as in

the past in Haiti the Dominican Re

public and Nicaragua. Or he can do it

with a phony revolution, as T R took

Panama from Colombia.

CAN’T ALWAYS STOP HIM

And he can act when Congress has

tried to stop him—as when Wilson

armed merchar t ships, and (so con

gressmen contend) when F. D. R.

traded destroyers to Britain.

When President Polk sent troops into

disputed territory the Mexican War re

sulted almost automatically. William

McKinley sent the battleship Maine to

Havana, when he knew this ’unfriend

ly” act might precipitate a Spanish-

American War It did.

F. D.’s PLEDGE

Franklin Rocsevelt’s single-handed

commitment to Canada will put us into

war with Germany, if Hitler is foolish

enough to attack our neighbor or a

British government which retreats

there. That is the specific Roosevelt

pledge. And certainly the White House

decision to send or not to send our fleet

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