Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department had spent $49,000 buying up U.S. modern paintings to show the world. By last week State's two traveling exhibitions had gotten as far as Haiti and Prague. That seemed about as far as they would...
...High Commissioner in Haiti...
...history of this Caribbean land, hoping to attract a lucrative flow of tourists from many foreign lands, primarily from conveniently nearby, pleasantly wealthy United States of America. The prospects were beautiful. Since the appearance in TIME [Nov. 4] of "Paradise 1946," a story describing the Utopian life Haiti affords its foreign visitors, there had come an unprecedented flood of letters to the Chamber of Commerce in Port-au-Prince and to the U.S. Embassy, from people wishing to come to Haiti...
Author Roberts finally pins Lear to the mat as one of the culprits in our "disgraceful as well as heroic" Tripolitan War. To do so he follows Lear from Haiti to the Mediterranean, dragging Albion and Lydia along to make love on the way. Albion reaches Haiti, finds Lydia not dead from yellow fever at all, and as pretty as her picture. He also finds Napoleon's troops trying to put down Toussaint's revolution, and willy-nilly mixes in on Toussaint's side. By page 300 Haiti is left far behind; Albion and Lydia languish...
...which bubble with the heat and smell of the country, the tragicomic chaos of the days of Toussaint, Henri Christophe and Dessalines. Lydia's standout character: King Dick, giant, uninhibited Sudanese ex-slave who figured in Author Roberts' The Lively Lady and who swaggers happily around Haiti with pearls as big as birds' eggs, a harem of doting wives and a 5-ft. bamboo shillelagh. Lydia Bailey is the stuff that sells, but doesn't survive...