It would seem that if Spain should offer to Cuba genuine autonomy...there should be no just reason why the pacification of the island might not be effected on that basis.
Grover Cleveland: “It would seem that if Spain should offer to Cuba genuine autonomy...there should be no just reason why the pacification…”
On the recordDecember 6, 1896
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Fourth Annual Message (second term)
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