82 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION
politicos. Roosevelt's unwillingness to accept the risk of a
Cuban war committed the United States to intervention on
the insurgents' terms. It also established the policy of the
military occupation that followed intervention and influenced
the course of Cuba's political development.
- Portell Vila, Historia de Cuba, IV, pp. 455-56.
- "Manifesto of the Revolution," July 28, 1906, reprinted in the
Taft-Bacon Report, p. 505. The "Manifesto" was first made public in
the first week of September. World (New York), September 5, 1906. - For a reliable Cuban account, see Martinez Ortiz, Cuba: los
primeros anos de independencia, II, pp. 614-70; Capt. F. R. McCoy to
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, October 18, 1906, Wood Papers. - Jacob Sleeper, charge d'affaires, American legation, Havana, to
Secretary of State, August 21, 1906, as printed in U.S. Department of
State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1906 (Washington, 1909),
I, 454. Hereafter cited as Foreign Relations, 1906.
The author has examined the original diplomatic correspondence in
Case 244, Numerical File, 1906-1910, Vols. XXXVI-XXXVIII, General
Records of the Department of State, National Archives, Record Group
59, but for convenience has cited Foreign Relations, 1906 or the Taft-
Bacon Report except when a particular passage or entire document does
not appear in either. In that case the original is cited. Further refer
ences to the Numerical File are cited as (case), Num. File, 1906-1910
(Vol.), RG59.
For the beginning of the revolt, see also Wright, Cuba, p. 173. - For the status of the Liberal politicos and the officers of the
Constitutional Army, the author has used an extensive biographical study
compiled by the Military Information Division (MID), Army of Cuban
Pacification (ACP), in December, 1906, Serial 4352-E-ll, AWC Doc.
File, RG 165. - As Sir William Van Home put it: "The disturbance in Cuba, which
was at first confined between the Rural Guard and a disorderly element
in the extreme west, was raised to the dignity of an insurrection by the
arrest of a lot of political leaders, including the late candidate for the
presidency against Mr. Palma."—Quoted in Vaughan, The Life and
Letters of Sir William Van Home, p. 315. - Martinez Ortiz, Cuba: los primeros anos de independencia, II, 450.
- Lt. Col. R. L. Bullard's manuscript autobiography, Bullard Papers.
- Martinez Ortiz, Cuba: los primeros anos de independencia, II, 621.
- Faustino Guerra, "Causes of the Cuban Insurrection," North
American Review, CLXXXIII (September 21, 1906), Part I, 538-40. - La Discusion (Havana), August 29, 1906. Eduardo Guzman
called the revolt a "demonstration" and promised not to destroy foreign
property. World (New York), September 13, 1906.