Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual, the trouble involved the dictator-ridden Dominican Republic. Haiti's spokesman before the O.A.S. charged that the Dominicans, while raising a hue & cry about Cuban and Guatemalan plots against themselves, had actually been hatching a plot of their own against neighboring Haiti. The scheme, uncovered late last month, called for the murder of Haitian President Dumarsais Estimé and other high Haitian officials and-to provide a reason for indignation-the burning of the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince. In the ensuing panic, Dominican troops under the renegade Haitian colonel, Astrel Roland (TIME, Feb. 21), were...
What lent substance to the story was that it had been the Dominican charge d'affaires in Port-au-Prince himself who disclosed the plot to the Haitians. His motive: the discovery that he and his family were to have been beaten up to provide a good excuse for Dominican intervention. Having spilled the beans, he fled to the U.S., where, after a few consultations with his countrymen, he was promoted-and denied the whole story...
...subservient Congress, Dominican Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo last week became the hemisphere's only chief of state empowered to declare war whenever he sees fit. Technically, this meant that he could strike fast at any Caribbean state harboring Dominican exiles and others plotting against him. He could shoot first, then ask or answer questions in the Organization of American States afterwards...
...indignant prodding of Cuban Ambassador Gonzalo Giiell, the five-man Inter-American Peace Commission finally got off a letter to Trujillo expressing "grave concern" and pointing out that the O.A.S. had machinery to settle quarrels between states. At week's end Trujillo sent a tart rejoinder: "The Dominican Republic, a victim of aggression, is anxious to study the problem with other American states...