Americans Favored Providing Aid to the Cuban Revolutionaries for All

Americans favored providing aid to the Cuban revolutionaries for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

A) fear that the substantial American investment in Cuban sugar and other businesses would be lost.
B) a belief that Spain's control of Cuba presented a national security threat to the United States.
C) fear that Spanish misrule in Cuba menaced the Gulf of Mexico and the route to the proposed Panama Canal.
D) sympathy for Cuban patriots fighting for their freedom.
E) the atrocity stories reported in the yellow press of William Randolph Hearst.