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of Porto Rico, Guam and the Philip

pines. A vigorous president “took”

Panama from Colombia after, as he

put it, making “every effort to per

suade Colombia to allow herself to

be benefited” by the act. Since then

this country has established what

even the history text books describe

as virtual protectorates over Haiti,

Liberia, Nicaragua and Santo Do

mingo, and has brought several other

formerly independent and sovereign

states under its control. It has inter

vened by force at least thirty times

in the internal affairs of nine sov

ereign Latin-American countries.

What has driven the United States

into this relationship toward these

countries? Is it, to use the words of

the late President Harding, “the lure

of the waters, or the march of em

pire, or the call of commerce, or in

scrutable destiny?” Perhaps a little

of each, if you will. But I should be

inclined to lay much the greater em-

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MACHINE-GUN DIPLOMACY. By

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Reviewed by HARRY FREEMAN.

THE alleged progressives in the sen

ate were duly indignant about the

war which the United States is wag

ing in Nicaragua. They pointed out

that killing Nicaraguans cost the

Navy Department money; they ob

served that a number of marines had

been killed in the fighting. The bolder

spirits even mentioned the word im

perialism.

But when the shouting was all over

and all of the pretty speeches had

been made, the liberals voted to main

tain marines in Nicaragua—at least

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The daily worker. (1928). Chicago, Ill.;New York, N.Y., 1928-05-19. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020097/1928-05-19/ed-1/?sp=5

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The daily worker, 1928-05-19.