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...defense document, the Rio Treaty is similar to the North Atlantic pact; it unites the American nations on a one-for-all basis, and provides for the use of political and economic sanctions -or joint use of hemisphere armed forces. Aiding & Fomenting. Upholding charges (TIME, Jan. 16) of the Haitian government that the Dominican Republic had helped organize a plot to overthrow the regime of President Estime last December, the committee thundered: "The Dominican Republic has been guilty of tolerating, instigating, aiding and fomenting subversive movements against other governments." But so had Cuba and Guatemala. Both governments at one time...
...thin, dark deputy Castel Demesmin rose in Port-au-Prince's Doric-columned, blue-and-gold-trimmed Chambre des Deputes, drew a deep breath and let fly with a hot blast of pure male chauvinism. The topic under discussion was a modest petition to let Haitian women vote and hold office. "All the miseries of this country," roared Demesmin, "come from the women. They have corrupted the public officers, the Deputies, the Senators. The Haitian woman has brought this country to ruin . . . the women who want the right to vote are so much manure...
...benign Generalissimo also busied himself making the best possible impression on the five traveling investigators of the Inter-American Peace Commission. Largely as the result of Haitian charges that he was behind a December plot to overthrow the government of Haiti, the Organization of American States had determined to find out why there was so little peace in the turbulent Caribbean...
Trujillo argued persuasively that all the trouble in his part of the world was due to the tireless intrigues of Dominican, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan exiles, plotting with the Cuban, Guatemalan, Haitian, Costa Rican and Mexican governments to oust...
...Peace Commission back in Washington, President Trujillo asked his Congress to revoke the extraordinary power granted him last December to declare war on his own responsibility. Thus, with deft timing, he moved to recall an act which had provoked even more criticism than his alleged part in the Haitian plot. Thus the wily dictator also washed his hands in public and waited hopefully for an amiable whitewash at the hands of the Peace Commission...