Armed intervention in Nicaragua.

• Author: La Follette, Robert, Jr.
• Position: 1927 - Brief article

January 1927

Without authority from Congress, American Marines have been landed in Nicaragua. This armed invasion of a friendly republic and the support of the government of General Díaz are justified by the Coolidge Administration under the flimsy pretext of protecting American lives and property in Nicaragua.

The Coolidge Administration has blundered badly. It has undertaken intervention in Nicaragua pure and simple. It has undertaken that intervention in behalf of a government whose chief...