Address of General Gerardo Machado, President Elect of Cuba, Delivered at the dinner tendered to him by The New York Citizen's Committee, Hotel Astor, New York: April 22, 1925
In 1925, Gerardo Machado went to New York on an American tour as president. There he delivered a speech praising the American people in the person of President Coolidge and emphasizing the ties that bound Cuba and the U.S. He noted that the geographic proximity of the island nation to American soil made it an ideal supplier of sugar as well as provided it a steady and solid ally near its shores. Machado reassured his audience of Cuban admiration and sympathy for the U.S. and closed his speech remembering American contributions to the independence of Cuba from Spain.
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