Word: carribean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington can give its Cuban policy two different forms. It can reverse the traditional American Carribean diplomacy by treating the Platt Amendment as a dead letter, eschewing intervention, and extending immediate recognition and moral support to the present regime; or it can land troops in Cuba, restore order, and see that a stable representative government is established. The adoption of either of these courses would calm the chaotic situation now existing and make some sort of recovery possible for the unhappy island. Instead of doing this Secretary Hull has resurrected the thoroughly discredited Stimson Doctrine, which gained for its originator...
...fight and leave the seed of warriors. The witch-doctors had been unable to save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors were plentiful, women were silent and prolific. Roger, however, found everything in this Carribean land maddening to his touch, lukewarm; and Eph yearned for Susannah, for pumpkin pie, for quoyhaugs. They had left, had spent a year in New Orleans, and had shipped for Boston...
...Arrowsmith," played by Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes is a typical movie version of a famous novel. The first half dealing with the young doctor's early married life in a small western town is refreshing, but once he gets into the clutches of the malarial jungles of a Carribean island the story becomes drizzly and melodramatic, and concerns itself mostly with rain and the ravages of the bubonic plague...
...calm precision of Professor Tucker as he unravels the skein of English literature. There is Mr. De Vote reducing the sophomore to a sentimental pot pourri with his tolerant cynicism. There is the deep thunder of Professor Holcombe, inevitable and inviolate as the Monroe Doctrine, settling down over the Carribean. There is the deep rapture and breath taking enthusiasm of Professor McIlwain which sweeps the stupidity of Stephen and of the class into brighter realms. There is Edgell playing like the eternal fountains of D'Este. There is the tranquil sentiment of Mr. Hersey as he sits like a corner...
...matters stand the United States could apparently send marines into Carribean countries, as she has done in the past, with impunity. So long as "maintaining order" is the object, military action is a legal procedure, or could be so construed at least. Even the bombing of a town, if done in defense against a threat to national interests, might escape classification...