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...property; 2) to help support a stable government and suppress cannibalistic bandits; 3) to prevent, by administering the Haitian customs, European creditor nations from interfering in Haiti's affairs. In 1919 occurred an uprising against the U. S. which Haitians claimed cost 3,500 lives. In 1922 Louis Borno became President; in 1927 the Haitian Parliament dissolved...
This, the Second School wants to force the U. S. to cease to "domineer"?in Nicaragua, for instance (See NICARAGUA). Another prominent Second Schooler is black President Louis Borno of Haiti who demands "mutual Pan-American respect of liberty, independence and territorial integrity." Another is President Augusto B. Leguia of Peru: "The two Americas, different in origin, will (must) be equal in their final destiny...
...letter in one of your numbers of July with my photograph [TIME, Aug. 23, 1926]. I am again in jail. I have been arrested on June 24. The last time I have not been tried; I will not be tried this time any more. The President of Haiti, L. Borno, said to a representative of the Chicago Tribune that the prisoners will be released when he happens to think of them again. This has been printed in many American papers. For more details, please see the Nation of July 20 (editorial "Poor Haiti...
...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...