Word: haitianization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Citizens of Haiti who suspect that their newly elected President Eugene Roy is "a tool of Wall Street and Washington" had their worst fears confirmed last week when he began to act in a strange, un-Haitian fashion...
...come for observance of an old Haitian custom. A crowd gathered with itching palms before the Presidential Palace at Port-au-Prince. Tradition bade the President to appear, inquire whether his people had any grievance, listen to any complaints which might be made, and finally?this being the real point of the old Haitian custom?finally to fling several bagfulls of small but handy coins...
...Russia, the Associated Press always knows well where its duty to God and country lies. ... If the revelations of the justified Haitian criticisms of our occupation . . . came as a surprise to the American people it must be in large part due to the fact that the Associated Press has had a Marine officer as its correspondent...
...Last week President Hoover announced that he had accepted the recommendations of his Haitian Commission. The new Hoover policy calls for: 1) Substitution of a U. S. diplomatic representative for the present military High Commissioner; 2) Gradual withdrawal of the U. S. Marines; 3) Probably complete termination of U. S. occupation in six years...
Tooting a shrill goodbye on its whistle, the cruiser U. S. S. Rochester carrying President Hoover's commission to investigate Haitian politics, put out from Port-au-Prince, returned to Miami. Barefooted Haitians in floppy straw hats returned to their homes to mull over the week's events...