Root to Wood, February 9, 1901. Reprinted in Five Years of the
War Department, pp. 187-90.
U.S., Statutes at Large, XXXI, 897.
Enrique Jose Varona, Mirando en torno (Havana, 1906), p. 47.
The literature on the Platt Amendment is voluminous. See Healy,
The United States in Cuba, pp. 150-78; Chapman, A History of the
Cuban Republic, pp. 126-51; Fitzgibbon, Cuba and the United States,
pp. 73-85; Hagedorn, Leonard Wood, I, 421-23; and Jessup, Elihu
Root, I, 310-31. Accounts from the Cuban standpoint are Manuel
Marquez Sterling, Proceso historico de la Enmienda Platt, 1897-1934
(2 vols.; Havana, 1941); Rafael Martinez Ortiz, Cuba: los primeros anos
de independencia (2 vols.; 2d ed., Paris, 1924); Portell Vila, Historia
de Cuba, IV, 7-290; Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring, Historia de la
Enmienda Platt (2 vols.; Havana, 1935); Jorge Manach, "Revolution in
Cuba," Foreign Affairs, XII (October, 1933), 46-56.
Republica de Cuba, Sentado, Memoria, 1902-1904, "Report of
the Committee Appointed to Confer with the Government of the United
States, Giving an Account of the Results of Its Labors." No. 7, Docu
ment M. Copy in subject file "Cuba," Root Papers, Library of Congress.
James Bryce, "Some Reflections on the State of Cuba," North
American Review, CLXXIV (March, 1902), 449-56.
Scott, Some Memories of a Soldier, p. 270; Hagedorn, Leonard
Wood, I, 400, 412.
Chapman, A History of the Cuban Republic, pp. 130-32; Johnson,
The History of Cuba, IV, 260-64; Martinez Ortiz, Cuba: los primeros
anos de independencia, II, 330-33, 407.
Infiesta, Historia constitucional de Cuba, pp. 286-87 n.
Quoted by Chapman, A History of the Cuban Republic, p. 143.
Quoted in Carlos de Velasco, Estrada Palma: contribucion his
torico (Havana, 1911), pp. 33-34.
The biographical sketch of Estrada Palma is based on Panfilo D.
Camacho, Estrada Palma, el Gobernante Honrado (Havana, 1938);
Carlos Marquez Sterling, Don Tomas: Biografia de una epoca (Havana,
1953); Martinez Ortiz, Cuba: los primeros anos de independencia, I,
330-33; Portell Vila, Historia de Cuba, IV, 263-90; Roig de Leuchsen
ring, Historia de Enmienda Platt, I, 15-23; Chapman, A History of the
Cuban Republic, pp. 152-54; Scott, Some Memories of a Soldier, p. 263.
Major accounts of the Estrada Palma administration may be found
in Portell Vila, Historia de Cuba, IV, 420-520; Chapman, A History of
the Cuban Republic, pp. 152-94; Fitzgibbon, Cuba and the United
States, pp. 94-111.
Report of Sr. Despaigne, Administration de Aduana, to Capt.
Frank R. McCoy, November 8, 1906, Tasker H. Bliss Papers, Library
of Congress; J. M. Cortes to Gen. T. H. Bliss, August 25; September
9, 15, 22, 29; October 6; November 18, all 1906, Bliss Papers.
H. G. Squiers, Minister to Cuba, to Secretary of State John Hay,
September 19 and October 17, 1903, U.S. Department of State, Foreign
