President Franklin Roosevelt's Latin American policy of being a "good neighbour" rather than a "big brother" has met a severe test in the present Cuban situation.
The Administration feel that the ecesatul conclusion of trade trea-with the various Latin American countries depends upon whether their Cuban policy is one which does ffend Latin American suscep-Marines landed in the first instance to protect the lives of Americans and other mar find themselves insensibly driven to protecting property and from protecting property to policing an entire region. Intervention is like inflation. Once started it is rd to stop. If the Pan-American Conference which is to be held in December in Montevideo, capital of Paraguay, to discuss among other things the nego! economic treaties, is occupied by American Marines there will be mo chance at all of those treaties being concluded, other hand the Platt Amendment cannot. be disregarded completely. The essential " para: graphs of the Amendment embodied ina treaty signed in July, 1904, runs, "The Government of Cubs consents that the United States mav exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban in-Jdependence, the maintenance of a Government adequate for the tection of life property and indi ideal liberty and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba by the Treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be_assumed and undertaken by the Government of Cut Because of this amendment which was interpreted as guaranteeing United States protection American foreign capital (especially Ca-has been invested in Cuba far greater extent than would] have been the case otherwise. The United States it is insisted is mortally bound to carry out the obligations imposed by the Platt Amendment,
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