The country gave the best of its talent to make the islands self-governing as quickly as possible.
Harvard University invited Cuban teachers to be its guests at a summer session.

American medical men labored with a martyr's devotion to stamp out disease.

General Wood, as military governor, established order and justice and presided over the evolution of a convention assembled to draft a constitution for the people of Cuba and to determine the relations of the United States and Cuba.

These relations, indeed, were already under consideration at Washington and were subsequently embodied in the Platt Amendment.

* This measure directed the President to leave the control of Cuba to the people of the island as soon as they should agree to its terms.