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War College Serial 11, "Cuba," September 3, 1906, AWC Doc. File,
RG 165.
- Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston to Brig. Gen. J. F- Bell, August
28, 1906, Appendix 1 to Army War College Serial 11, "Cuba," as
previously cited.
- Roosevelt to Bell, September 1, 1906, Roosevelt Papers; Bell to
Leonard Wood, May 1, 1911, Wood Papers. In the letter to Wood, Bell
complained that in 1906 he could not get information on conditions
in Cuba from the State Department: "I had to base all our preparations
on mere suspicion." Bell added that the presence of the Secretary of
War in Washington might have unblocked the cable clog at State.
- Taft to Roosevelt, September 2, 1906, Roosevelt Papers.
- Roosevelt to Root, September 4, 1906; Roosevelt to Taft, Sep
tember 4, 1906, Roosevelt Papers.
- Interview with General Eduardo Guzman, reported in La Cor
respondencia (Cienfuegos), September 6, 1906, translated copy in Cuba
Subject File, Admiral William F. Fullam Papers, Library of Congress.
- W. A. Page, manager of Buenaventura and Redencion planta
tions, Bahia Honda, to American legation, September 2, 1906, Case
244/91, Num. File, 1906-1910, Vol. XXXVII RG 59.
For reports of other complaints, see Sleeper to Secretary of State,
September 4, 6, 8, 1906, with enclosures, Foreign Relations, 1906,
pp. 467-73; New York Times, September 10, 1906.
- Sleeper to Secretary of State, September 7 and 8, 1906, For
eign Relations, 1906, p. 470-72; La Lucha (Havana) and La Discusion,
August 29, 1906; New York Times, September 10, 1906. See also
"Manifesto of the Central Revolutionary Committee," September 1,
1906, reprinted in Secades and Diaz Pardo (eds.), La justicia en Cuba:
patriotas y traidores, II, 24-25.
- Estrada Palma to Claudio G. Mendoza, October 10, 1906,
James H. Wilson Papers; also reprinted in Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 12-15;
Camacho, Estrada Talma, pp. 227-28; Taft-Bacon Report, p. 455;
Marquez Sterling, Troceso historico de la Enmienda Flatt, I, 312-13;
Johnson, The History of Cuba, IV, 282; Portell Vila, Historia de Cuba,
IV, 458; Times (London), August 25, 1906.
- Enrique Jose Varona, Mirando en torno (Havana, 1910), p. 7.
- William Inglis, "The Armed Struggle for Control of Cuba," Harp
er's Weekly, L (September 22, 1906), pp. 1344-47.
Inglis was present through most of the revolt and subsequent Ameri
can intervention in 1906. For the role of the newspaper reporters, see
Wright, Cuba, p. 175.
- The Moderate paper La Discusion attempted to turn popular
feeling against the Liberals with editorials like the one printed August
- If war continued, La Discusion said, the Americans would inter
vene: "Beside us would pass with jingling spurs and beery lear the
American officer, master of all, and drawing all to himself, even the
smiles and glances of our adorable virgins.
"And is it for that Cubans are fighting against Cubans?
