Smedley Butler - I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in ...

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I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

Smedley Butler

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Ich habe mitgeholfen, Nicaragua für das internationale Bankhaus von Brown Brothers in den Jahren 1909-1912 zu reinigen. Ich brachte 1916 wegen der amerikanischen Zuckerinteressen Licht in die Dominikanische Republik. In China half ich, dafür zu sorgen, dass sich Standard Oil unbehelligt durchsetzen konnte.

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