Talk:Orville H. Platt

Platt Amendment
I extracted the following text from the article and put it here pending transfer from this page to the Platt Amendment article by someone who has access to the text of the relevant reference. It is totally extraneous to this article:

The amendment stipulated that Cuba had only a limited right to conduct its own foreign policy and debt policy. It also gave the United States an open door to intervene in Cuban affairs. The Isle of Pines (now called Isla de la Juventud) was deemed outside the boundaries of Cuba until the title to it was adjusted in a future treaty. Cuba also agreed to sell or lease to the United States "lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon." Havana was seething as a result of the Platt Amendment and gave formal protest to General Leonard Wood, the U.S. Military Governor of Cuba at the time. Juan Gualberto Gómez, a Cuban senator at the time the Platt Amendment was passed, denounced the amendment stating, "To reserve to the U.S. the faculty of deciding for themselves when independence is menaced and when therefore they ought to intervene, to preserve it, is equivalent to delivering up the key of our house so that they can enter it at all hours when the desire takes them, day or night." A cartoon drawn by Jesus Castellanos on April 12, 1901, in the Cuban paper La Discusión showed "The Cuban People" represented by a crucified Jesus Christ between two thieves, General Wood and American President William McKinley. Cuban public opinion was depicted by Mary Magdalene on her knees crying at the foot of the cross and Senator Platt, depicted as a Roman soldier, is holding a spear that says "The Platt Amendment" on it. Governor Wood, who saw in Castellanos's drawing an unfriendly gesture toward the United States, gave order to apprehend Dr. Manuel M. Coronado, director of La Discusión and Jesús Castellanos, caricaturist of the newspaper. Both were arrested for criminal libel and held in the Vivac prison of Havana, and the offices of La Discusión newspaper were sealed (Wood was persuaded to release them on the following day).

&mdash; Bob Burkhardt (talk) 22:29, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

O. H. Platt in Tampa
In 1886, an O. H. Platt moved to Tampa, Florida. He was from Chicago, and gave Hyde Park its name reminiscent of Illinois. Once has to assume he is the namesake of Platt Street. Any relation to this fellow? Cake (talk) 07:47, 11 December 2015 (UTC)