Kubaiak Jönnek 1917 — 'The Cubans are coming in 1917'. Against a yellow sky, on a smooth blue sea, a cigar submarine floats, a curl of smoke drifting from its lighted tip. An upright matchbox forms a conning tower, and a Cuban flag flies above it. Palm trees grow on a tip of land in the distance. A watercolor postcard by Schima Martos.
Kubaiak Jönnek 1917'The Cubans are coming in 1917'
"Article I. Resolved, That from to-day a state of war is formally declared between the Republic of Cuba and the Imperial Government of Germany, and the President of the Republic is authorized and directed by this resolution to employ all the forces of the nation and the resources of our Government to make war against the Imperial German Government with the object of maintaining our rights, guarding our territory and providing for our security, prevent any acts which may be attempted against us, and defend the navigation of the seas, the liberty of commerce, and the rights of neutrals and international justice."
Article I of the Republic of Cuba's Declaration of War on the German Empire on July 7, 1917, the day after the Declaration of War by the United States was signed by President Woodrow Wilson. Panama declared war the same day. The President who would marshal Cuba's resources was Mario Garcia Menocal.
The Great Events of the Great War in Seven Volumes by Charles F. Horne, Vol. V, 1917, p. 148, copyright © 1920 by The National Alumnia, publisher: The National Alumni, publication date: 1920
Declaration of War, Cuba, Republic of Cuba, 1917-04-07, 1917, April
