The President, remembering the discord into which the occupation Nicaragua threw the Pan-Amer.
an Conference of 1928 held at
attempted to secure the support o Havana has in the present depute Latin' America for any action he 1as Mav be compelled to tal The day following. the fall of Cuba's. provisional President," de Cesped Giplomatic representatives of Latin Anierica were—summoned to the White House and the policy of the rican Government was laid be hem. Nothing would have pleased the Roosevelt administra tion" more than to have. seen units from South American navies alongside the American vessels anchored off La The United States would be in dificult position if Cuba which is member of the League of tions should appeal "against intervention" to Geneva. The Cuban Government might. also. maintain that since the United States had reed to the Gondra convention drawn up at the fifth Pan jean Conference in 1928 the ques-ion of intervention should be submitted to the commissions. provided for under that treaty and again at the Arbitration Conference held in [Washington in 2928-29.
The Latin American States have ted the United States. since the time of the first Roosevelt. President Theodore Roosevelt interpreted the Monroe doctrine to mean that the United States should act jas a kind of "policeman for the Western Hemisphere. The Platt Amendment, the creation of the Republic of Panama, in 1903, to sure the construction of an Amei canised an militarised canal, establishment 1905, Cruz in 1914, the military oceups and Santo' Domingo invasion of Mexico in 1916, and the occupation of Nicara-}gua in 1926 have had the eumulative effect of keeping alive and increasing Latin American hostility.
President Hoover, realising that Jcommercial relations between the United States and Latin America suffering through lack of {friendly feeling attempted to prove matters. The' pol withdrawing marines from Nicaragua was inaugurated. The last of them left in January this year. A similar policy was inaugurated i Haiti and the last of the Marines li be withdrawn in 1934. In 1929) Jo. Pan-American arbitration con: ference was held at which compulsory arbitration and _conciliation treaties were signed covering every, type of dispute, though reservations the Senate have somewhat ES emasculated it, President Roosevel: showed that he intended to carry on in the Hoover tradition. His
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