LIABILITY, NOT ASSET
AMERICAN WEST INDIES
HOOVER'S "POORHOUSE"
NEW YORK, 27th March.
Aboard the United States warship Arizona at sea, President Hoover, in a statement to correspondents accompanying him on his ten days' tour of United States possessions in the Caribbean, virtually expressed despair of reviving the Virgin Islands economically. He said: "From every point of view. except that of remote naval contingencies, it is unfortunate that the United States ever acquired them." The nation, had acquired a poorhouse comprising 90 per cent, of its population. The United States, however, had no intention of abandoning the islands, despito the heavy expenditure necessary to aid the population.
Certain of the Virgin Islands, comprising a group of about 100 in number, were "acquired" by tho United States from Spain in 1898, and others wore purchased from Denmark in 1917 for 25,000,000 dollars.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 74, 28 March 1931, Page 9
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140LIABILITY, NOT ASSET Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 74, 28 March 1931, Page 9
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