Word: borno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week as President Borno, of Haiti, heard the combined U. S. fleet boom out the full presidential salute of 21 guns in his honor Brigadier General John H. Russell, U. S. High Commissioner of Haiti, quietly sent his annual report to Secretary of State Kellogg at Washington. Praise he gave to President Borno's administration; his report on the judicial system was less favorable, more revealing. "Trials by jury" he said, "are farcical. The jury is always opposed to the government. . . " The customs receipts had increased, he reported, under U. S. supervision. Meanwhile at the Haitian border, Negro...
Puzzled U. S. citizens pondered. The Department of State had said: "Haiti is a sovereign republic." Thus, the U. S. expressed its inability to persuade President Borno to allow Senator King to enter on his tour of investigation. But, citizens argued, a U. S. High Commissioner passes judgment on President Borno's administration, the U. S. controls Haiti's customs, one-time U. S. marines command Haiti's gendarmerie...
...though Haiti's juries are filled with men hostile to the government and to the President, Mr. Borno remains in power. Is it possible, they asked, that Senator King is right, that "Commissioner Russell is the power in Haiti," that there is there "an American bayonet rule...
...sailors, white-garbed, bronze-faced, scrambled, stood at attention. Out from the harbor, the cruiser Trenton moved. Suddenly the grease-grey guns on the biggest ships spat red and yellow fire . . . boom . . . boom . . . boom . . . Twenty-one guns they fired, the full presidential salute. It was for Louis Borno, President of the Negro Republic of Haiti (see p. 6). From the deck of the Trenton he watched the U. S. display its naval power while he chatted with Theodore Douglas Robinson, fourth Roosevelt to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They saw the greatest force of U. S. sailors that...
...King had said last year in the Senate that Louis Borno was illegally elected President of Haiti. Technically, Mr. King is right; but the U. S. has been backing the Borno government...