The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-12
NO ENTHUSIASM IN
 CUBAN GREETING
No Frantic Welcome to MT.
 Knox
HE CALLS ON GOMEZ
No Guard of Honor, No Bands Meet Secretary and Red, White and Blue Not Displayed-Given
 an Elaborate Dinner

Havana. April 11.-Cuba, for whose lih- erty America gave of her blood and treasure. today received the American Secretary of State with official friendli- ness but without anything in the nature of a popular demonstration, When the United States cruiser Washington, with Mir Knox and party aboard, reached the Havana harbor the guns of the Cubans answered her salute. A welcoming party boarded the Washington and presented several floral pieces to Mrs. Knox, but the landing was unique. in that for the first time in two months the secretary was not greeted by the Red. White and Blue, nor heard the welcome strains of the na- tional airs.
 No Guard of Honor
 There was no guard of honor, no en- thusiasm and no soldiers lined the streets. Waiting automobiles carried the visitors through undeeorated streets. The only American flag sighted fioated over the American club.
 Secretary Knox called on Secretary of State Sanguilly in the morning and later on President Gomez. The dinner this evening at the office of the Secretary of the Interior. senors Machade. was an elaborate affair. covers being laid for 1eO. Senor sanguilly Is generally reputed to be anti-American. but, nevertheless, made a fiattering address Of welcome.
 Secretary Knox's response was reas- surance of the disnterested purpose of the United States toward Cuba, and was intended to allay any suspicion of aggres- sion. At the same time MT. Knox warned Cubans against permitting the govern will exploit for selfish ends.
 Speaks of Mission
 Secretary Knox spoke of his mission of conveying to the nations of the Caribbean suranee and declared that it was appro- priate and gratifying that on the home ward journey he should have the oppor- tunity to get into closer personal touch with the one sovereign people of the whole western world who above all are in a position to know and appreciate the broad and essentially conscientious policy of Anglc-Saxon America toward Latin America.
 50 far as Cuba is concerned our rec ord speaks for itself" he continued. Tt is consistent and unblemished. It was for mulated and proclaimed before the first shot was fired at Manila in initiating the conflict to free from crushing despotism this farest land eye had ever seen and which happily ended in gaining free Cuba for free Cubans. That policy has been lived up to ever since. The United States stands firmly as a true and wholehear,ed friend of Cuba, glad of the work it has done for the Cuban people and ready to aid them to Conserve the civic and ma terial benefits which 1t was our good for tune to be Instrumental in helping them to win.
 'Frst among these benefits is self gov ernment. We hold that all peoples are fit to work out the highest ideals of self government by creating for themselves and by their own effort healthy national life, inspired by safe and sane exercise of the popular will, homogeneous in all it's parts free from radical weakness or corporal blemish self-respecting and 'm- bued with respect for the rights of all at home and abroad.