War! With Mexico and Nicaragua Desired, Demanded and Promoted by the Knights of Columbus and the Roman Catholic Church Declares Senator Heflin

Hefflin, James Thomas and The New Menace

Verlag: The New Menace, Aurora, MO, 1927

Beschreibung

This is a smaller than trade sized booklet with self covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The newspaper style paper has some toning, especially to the foredges and spine of the covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "The combination of a steadily increasing U. S. Military presence in Nicaragua and widespread public and private speculation over the rationale for such an interventionist policy served to elicit a much more comprehensive policy declaration from the government. Accordingly, within a matter of days, President Calvin Coolidge, in a message to the Congress, and Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg, in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, provided the nation with their perceptions of the situation in Central America. Both Coolidge and Kellogg were unequivocal in their indictments of Mexican meddling in Nicaraguan affairs, insisting that it was Mexican military aid which sustained Juan B. Sacasa s Liberal forces in their fight against the Conservative government of Adolfo Díaz. In the estimation of President Coolidge, Mexico, "a foreign power, " was promoting anarchy in Nicaragua, thereby endangering United States strategic and economic interests in that nation, and, by extension, throughout the entire isthmus.3 Secretary Kellogg, in his testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee, reemphasized the threat to U. S. Strategic and economic interests in Nicaragua, and then tarred Mexico with a bolshevist brush in an effort to provide even greater justification for the administration s interventionist policy.4 Thus, the very highest foreign policy-making echelons within the United States government emphatically laid the blame for the escalating Nicaraguan crisis on a radical Mexican regime intent on extending its hegemony throughout Central America." (Duke Univ. Website). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers A46238

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Titel: War! With Mexico and Nicaragua Desired, ...

Verlag: The New Menace, Aurora, MO

Erscheinungsdatum: 1927

Einband: Stapled wraps

Zustand: Very Good+