Nicaragua Cheered

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 256, 19 January 1928, Page 1

Nicaragua Cheered

DEMONSTRATION BY CUBANS “U.S. Waging Undeclared War” MONTANA SENATOR ATTACKS COOLIDGE By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Beceived 10 a.m. HAVANA, Wednesday. rS attitude of the Cuban public toward the Nicaraguan situation was signally demonstrated when the flags of the 21 nations participating in the Pan-American Conference were ceremoniously hoisted above the meeting-place, as a prelude to the first session. A popular demonstration greeted the Nicaraguan flag, which was the only one cheered.

rrHE Mexican flag received most en--1 thusiastio applause, in the form c f hand-clapping and the United States and other flags were applauded moderately while the Cuban flag, was very P °Tbe conference decided to pursue a policy of open diplomacy with no secret sessions. —A. and N.Z. NEW YORK, Wednesday. In a speech at the Economic Club, Mr. Burton Wheeler, Democrat member of the Senate for Montana, said: "To all intents and purposes the President, Mr. Coolidge, and the Secretary of State, Mr. F. B. Kellogg, are waging an undeclared war against the people of the little republic of Nicaragua, to serve the purposes of a small banking group. “No person of sound judgment can

review the utterances and the activities of the Department of State and of the President, and the recent dealings with our southern neighbours without concluding that moral chaos reigns in the department and moral confusion in the White House and in our Department of State. “The waters surrounding the country are churned up by a procession of American battleships, and our marines are used in the manner of the Roman cohorts when Rome was over-running the world. “Our airplanes are used to drop bombs upon non-combatants—men and women and children. Our men in the marines are being killed upon foreign soil without war having been declared.”—A. and N.Z.