Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Should the United States recognize the Cuban insurgents as belligerents...
...Such intervention is contrary to our long established policy: Pres't. Grant's Spec. Mess. to Cong. 13 June 1870: in Wharton, Digest p. 387.- (a) Our course in respect to Spanish American Republics.- (b) Our forbearance in the last Cuban struggle...
...Cuba to independence is for the commercial interest of the U. S.- (a) Volume and importance of our trade with Cuba; Forum, xi. 563 ff; World's Almance, 1895, p. 195.- (b) This important commerce, while the war continues, will be constantly harassed.- (c) Cuban independence would greatly increase it.- (1) Removal of Spanish prohibitory duties.- (2) Removal of commercial restrictions.- (x) Tonnage duties.- (y) Fine system.- (z) Search by cruisers...
Best general references: Wharton, Digest of International Law, 60; R. H. Dana, Wheaton's International Law, 536n-564; Freeman Snow, American Diplomacy, 349-357; Segunds Alvarez on The Cuban Situation; in North American Review, vol. 161, pp. 362-365 (Sept. 1895) Harper's Weekly, May 18, 1895, July 27, 1895, Aug. 31, 1895, Oct. 19, 1895; Nation, LXI. 249; Freeman Snow, Cases on International...
...commercial interests will not be imperiled by failure to aid the insurgents.- (a) We enjoy considerable Cuban trade under Spanish dominion: Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 1895.- (b) Such trade is not now menaced by Spain: Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 1895.- (c) If Cuba gained freedom without our aid we should still enjoy bulk of the trade.- (1) Proximity.- (2) Existing reciprocal advantages...