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...Washington Post recalled that Ham Fish's relations with the Caribbean dictator had taken some curious turns. In 1937 after several thousand Haitian farmers were massacred by Dictator Trujillo's soldiers on the Dominican side of the border, Ham Fish arose in Congress and said: "This is the most outrageous atrocity that has ever been perpetrated on the American continent...
President Stenio Vincent of Haiti is a silver-haired, silver-tongued politician who is supported as loyally by the lesser politicians of Port-au-Prince as he is hated by Haitian exiles in Harlem. His friends say he is a statesman; his enemies call him a dictator; both agree that he likes a pleasant job. Such a job is the Presidency of Haiti...
...honor for fighting men) on his chest. The station at Quantico (Va.) has two such men: Major Herman Hanneken, who got his medal for killing notorious Haitian Bandit Charlemagne Peralte, and Major Christian Schilt, who won his for landing his airplane ten times in the bullet-swept street of Quilali, Nicaragua, to bring in medical supplies and evacuate wounded...
Willie Seabrook is the Richard Halliburton of the occult. The Magic Island credulously expounded Haitian voodoo, introduced "zombi" into U. S. speech. Adventures in Arabia found Seabrook among the whirling dervishes, learning to become a trance mystic. Jungle Ways presented him studying magic on the Ivory Coast, photographing phallic monuments, eating human flesh ("like good, fully developed veal"). Asylum was a frank account of another weird region: a New York insane asylum where he was cured of dipsomania...
Back at the University of Chicago, Miss Dunham took her B. A. degree, wrote a thesis on Haitian dances...