Evening star., 1933-09-11

government until the United States had
done So
Hull today indicated relaxation Of
the tenseness here over the Cuban situ-
alton in general.
The United States has 80 vessels
in, near or speeding toward Cuban
waters. On board are approximately
$500 Bluejackets, Marines and Coast
Guardsmen.
Today's location OF the ships:
The battleship Mississippi. with its
900 Bluejackets, 80 Marines and 60
officers. and the cruiser Richmond,
with 500 Blue jackets and 60 Marines.
we're at Havana. Also there were the
usual destroyer complement of IS.
Sturtevant at Santiago.
The destroyers Sturtevant was at
Santiago, the j. Fred Talbot, at Man.
zanillo; the Mcfarland, eI. route to
relieve the Overton at Cienfuegos; the
cambridge, at Key West. bound for
Puerto Padre.
Southwark from Hampton Roads,
Va. toward Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
sped the destroyers Reuben James,
Fairfax. Taylor, Claxton and Hamil-
ton. In the same fleet, but headed
toward Key West, were the destroyers
Ellis, Cole, Dupont and Bernadou.
Coast Guard cutters, with from 40 to
SO men each, were stationed The
Gresham at Matangas, the Yamacraw
at Puerto Padre. the Unalgo at An
till and the Tuscarora at Key West
Eight Coast Guard 6estroyers, with
about go men each, were at Key West;
the Badger, Herndon, Hunt, Semmes.
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Trade Effect Studied.
Carved in deep. square hewn letters
in the background OF events that have
led to talk Of American intervention in
Cuba, there has arisen before diplomats
the question Of how such step would
affect negotiations with South American
republics for trade treaties.
At the White House and the State
Department hours of thought have been
given to the widely tangled aspects OF
such a situation.
The preliminary conversations already
have started at the State Department.
A conference soon is to be held at Mon
teddeo. Both actions are designed to
stimulate trade between the United
States and the Latin American repub-
holes in the tariff walls for specified
commodities, the conference to bring all
the countries south of the St. Lawrence
together in trade alliance.
A desire to foster these negotiations
lay behind the call by President Roose-
welt for the Latin American diplomats
to come to the White House last week
so he could explain in advance what
the Cuban situation was and what the
United States intended to do about it.
Course Long Decided.
But, more than that, the President
long ago had decided upon that course
in his own mind-many months before
the Cuban crisis arose or the trade
negotiations started.
He began his study of Cuban affairs
before his Inauguration, and told
friend and close adviser:
If situation arises in which 1t
looks like the United States will have
to exercise its obligation under the
Platt amendment, shall call all of the
South American countries in and put
the situation before them"
It was at about this time that he
dispatched Charles w. TauSsig and A.
A. Berle, friends of long standing of
Mr.. Roosevelt, both students of econom-
les and of Cuba, to the island republic
to make a fresh study of the problems
of that country and report to him.
This report, never made public, traced
the history of the Cuban revolutionary
movement, originating among a group
of Cuban students and professors
which might be called Cuban brain
trust who had become thoroughly
disguised with all political parties in
that country.
Report Is Unqualified.
No words were minced In dealing
with politics and other conditions in
the country. The adjective corrupt"
was used in many connections.
The report traced the sugar industry
from the postwar price period-fre-
quently referred to in Cuba as the
dance Of the million" through what
it called the period of American
exploitation. It told of the extreme
resentment aroused in the Cuban revo.
lutionary group by this exploitation.
Sixty per cent of the sugar production
in Cuba had been brought under con-
troll of American companies.
In the beginning, American capital
had been welcomed and in the years
Immediately after the war responsible