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NY 97-1792 "of Cuba in 1823 and Henry Clay, Calhoun and Webster all felt too that ‘Cuba was a fruit when ripe would fall to the United States’. "tm the implementation of this policy’, Frank maintained, 'the United States insured for Spain that its rights in Cuba would be protected and refused to help Cuba in times of rebellion'. Frani indicated that many revolutions were wiped out in Cuba because the U.S, would not aliow any arms to the rebeis while Spain was bringing in arms, vy, "Prank stated that in 1868 a war for independence bro'ze out in Cuba but the United States refused to recognize the insurgents. He characterized the period between 1868 ana 1898 as the '30 years war'. In 1898, he insisted, Spain was eager to sell Cuba to the United States because this was 'the best way to protect her interests'. Spain, he indicated, wanted ‘to 'get out of Cuba but the United States wanted war', Through ‘the trickery of Theodore Roosevelt, then Secretary of State, Dewey was sent to the Phillipines to step in and conquer the Phillipines’, He maintained that the United States government ‘did not want to support the Cuban revolutionary government in spite cf Spain's readiness to capitulate and at the same time that we refused to do tusiness with Spain ie refused to recognize the Cuban government and instead set up a government in Cuba favorable to the United States interests’. He characterized U.S, policy toward Cuba as '100 years of deliverate, careful, dipdlomatic action impeding the birth of Cuba and finally military action impeding the political birth of the country'. 19th century (vis-a-vis Cuba and the United States) was that 'the United States impeced the birth of Cuba (even "Thus, Frank maintained that the drama of the J though Bolivar was ready ‘to midwife!) for 100 years’, - 20- og ae cats gee cosa ew AOE fre ta cere OT