KARL DECKER
She reached out her hands to us with many little, glad cries, rippling out in whispered Spanish benedictions for our efforts to save her.
DAVID NASAW
They brought her out of Cuba, sailed her triumphantly into New York Harbor, and Hearst arranged one of the most triumphant series of events. She was feted at balls at the Waldorf, dinners at Delmonico, brought to Washington in the company of William Randolph Hearst.
I thought over what I would say to the President, that the women and children of Cuba must look to the great United States for protection. Then he came in. My poor speech for Cuba was forgotten; but I looked into the kind face of the President and what I thought I saw there made me content. Evangelina Cisneros.
KRISTIN HOGANSON
American men had rescued one Cuban woman and the question that now faced the nation was when would the United States free Cuba?
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