| Show U. U u US U.'S S. S MARINE PLANES READY TO LEAVE p 30 WARSHIPS C CONCENTRATE 0 NEAR ISLAND Sight Bight of Vessels Aids it in Holding Hold Hold- jug ing Down Impending Uprisings T fO r PROTECT AMERICANS Orders to Commanders Ara Ar f Closely Guarded Y YA By F. F G. G VOSBURGH A Associated Press Staff start Writer WASHINGTON Sept 7 With 7 With th th of 16 destroyers bringing tc tco to 30 10 o the armada of ot American war vessels ves- ves els sels to border Cuba the American government stood ready today to land marines and on the first enuine threat to American citIzens At the same time there was resolution reso- reso ution lution against the momentous step of if taking over the islands island's govern govern- nent ment by armed intervention Already the psychological effect of t AmerI American an fighting lighting c vessels oft iff the coast was seen as aiding n holdIng the lid on the cauldron which Cuba has become Orders in the hands of the com corn manders of the th destroyers cruisers and nd the one big b battleships either en oute route to Cuban w wafers or already here there were guarded closely but butt it was vas understood the administration would not riot hesitate a moment in m putting put- put ing ting armed men men ashore to guard and arid their property AMPLE PRECEDENT For such a course there was ample I precedent On several occasions in ine Ithe he e last two decades small American have been landed when sud- sud Iden en revolt flared and Americans on heir their sugar properties or in their homes omes ornes were placed in jeopardy j In each instance they were withdrawn with with- drawn rawn promptly when matters had hd settled down Action of this type prompt and definite though it might be e. e is regarded here as nothing like 1 armed intervention in which thou thou- sands ands of at marines or soldiers are mass upon the island to control It Itom from rom om tip to tip Up maintain order and ter every ery government un ion hone o. o If a government capable of or pro- pro protecting lifo life and property including the le e billion of American investments ls is established by the Cuban people nothing hinting of at intervention will willbe wille be e 0 invoked Eight navy and eight coast guard destroyers were ordered today from froni oll tf rr the east coast toast to Cuba In add addon tion on the Indianapolis was bearing Secretary Swanson there and last ight night the destroyer Overton was sent from om orn the Panama Canal Zone to the tho thele thelie Isle lie le of Pines off the the- south Cuban coast ast to protect American lives there if necessary Many wealthy Americans Amen Amerl- cans ins have winter residences on thein the thele Isle le in of Pines Hoping against hope that such a momentous step wOl would d not be sar try iry President Roosevelt in an unprecedented un- un move called diplomatS of ading leading Latin-American Latin nations to his desk esk sk late yesterday to tell them of ot Continued en on Put Pare Two 30 WARSHIPS CONCENTRATE o IE NEAR ISLAND iiI JK I f i Continued from irom P PASS Fue fe One Oie his th fears and hopes his extreme re reluctance re S to intervene 1 tie He Ie Indicated that i if it a government capable able of ot ruling Cuba can be constituted con con- S quickly before belore some nervous rigger finger sets loose a S ifon the vexing question of intervention interventIon S tion will vanish of i Itself EXPRESSES VIEWS The gist of the presidents president's views pressed Expressed in calm and quiet converse w with th the envoys of ot Argentina Brazil BrazilS Chile and Mexico was later laid besore before be be- S sore fore the representatives of the rest oi ol of Latin America through Hull ulI In line with the administrations administration's policy of frank cooperation For more information on the throat throat- S ening ning conditions in Cuba the president president president S dent looked to Havana where Ambassador Am Am- Sumner Welles worked day and night and where Secretary Swanson Swanson Swan Swan- son on will wm arrive on on Friday The presence presen e of the cabinet abinet member mem mem- ber will give the president the benefit bene- bene fit Jit it of ot the judgment of ot two trusted advisers Instead of one although Swanson Swansea lessed back a denial that his visit had special significance Insisting he was stopping off oU on a trip to the west coast only to visit with Welles at ot Havana Figuratively eyes throughout Latin America were turned to Washington Wash Wash- ington perhaps with many brows raised in 6 n e expectation o of intervention and as though getting ready to give an nn I told you so look Mr Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- Roosevelt velt apparently chose to look the lookers in the eye and tell them in effect that if intervention docs does come it will vill only be with extreme tance While doing the telling he has kept 11 hi finger to the Cuban pulse Should the pulse beat at too hot heat should Welles signal that foreign life and property perty are threatened then would h V to come that decision fraught with so much significance P FAVOR OIt MIDDLE COURSE There was no saying for certain that intervention would be resorted 40 even then Present chances ap ap- 3 ear ar to favor any middle course that d save the situation so far as the over fore foreigners ners were con can l leaving Cub Cuban n affairs strictly 1 To heir own people But But the administration frankly reared for the safety of the thousands United States citizens in the island ee as the billion dollars of American American Amer Amer- ican capital invested there re reaching responsibilities were involved in intervention a right conferred con con- on the United States by the treaty eaty which granted Cuba its inde- inde after the Spanish-American Spanish var It was exercised only once under under un un- un der the Theodore Roosevelt administration administration adminis adminis- in 1906 1900 to 1909 Marines Marthes or troops once landed might have to stay for months or even years as that experience showed Almost t inevitably intervention would mean the loss of some American lives In money too the be considerable Beyond and behind all this is the danger that the action might be mIsconstrued misconstrued mis mIs- construed among the other nations of Latin America and a blight cast over the entire Roosevelt foreign policy with its emphasis on closer trade relations rela rea- and nd the attitude of the good toward the countries of rela-j rela the western hemisphere 1 U. U S. S Citizens Living in Cuba WASHINGTON Sept 7 W JP Amerlean Amer- Amer lean Jean residents In Cuba numbered ap ap- at the Beginning of T this year but state department officials oHio dais today said the American population population lation has been reduced in recent months and is not now believed to exceed regular residents Citizens of the United States have invested approximately in n Cuba but at present values this sum aura has been greatly reduced Cubas Cuba's census of 1930 indicated there here were nearly foreigners livIng iving permanently in Cuba Span Span- ards who have never become naturalized naturalized natu natu- make up nearly two two thirds thirds of this population British h subjects from various West Indian islands are also numerous Cubas Cuba's entire population tion is slightly less Ies than |
