14 Jan 1938

Photo(s) dated 14 Jan 1938
HMS York entering Havana Harbor, Cuba, 14 Jan 1938; note Castillo De Los Tires Reyes Del Morro in background
30 Jul 1940

Cuba
  • The Act of Havana was signed by the representatives from 21 nations in the Americas; it provided an emergency establishment of a regime of provisional administration "when islands or regions in the Americas now under the possession of non-American nations are in danger of becoming the subject of barter of territory or change of sovereignty". ww2dbase [Havana | CPC]

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