Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only three things bring a Haitian President to the U. S.: 1) to borrow money; 2) to get the U. S. marines out of Haiti; 3) to have U. S. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs, Sidney De La Rue, withdrawn. Haiti is in no immediate need of a loan and her public debt has been reduced $9,684,536 in eight years. The last U. S. marine will be withdrawn from Haiti by Nov. 1 and the policing of the Caribbean republic by the U. S. trained Garde d'Haiti will have commenced 30 days before. That...
President Vincent, who talks like a French university professor, has another little mission up his sleeve. Haitian trade with the U. S. is ten to one against his country. In his baggage President Vincent brought a great many bottles of Haitian rum. At every interview last week two or three varieties were produced, not for cocktails or punches but to be sipped straight and slowly like old brandy...
...Haitians and most U. S. Marine Corps officers agree with President Vincent that Haitian rum is the finest in the West Indies. Aged like Scotch whiskey in empty sherry casks, it is the only rum to be distilled from the whole fresh juice of the sugar cane and not from sugar lees of blackstrap molasses. Because of this fact it is also the most expensive of West Indian rums. Even in Port au Prince good Haitian rum brings $2 a bottle, costs nearly $5 in New York. Because of this fact President Vincent is trying to persuade his countrymen...
...left, and again most unexpectedly it may rebound into his own court. John Henry used similar tactics with Haiti's scheming politicians. To avoid even the appearance of militarism he wore civilian clothes. Through tall, thin, cafe-au-lait Louis Borno, John Henry kept tight rein on all Haitian legislation. Under him Haiti's internal and external debt was reduced to $14,000,000. He established eleven hospitals, 139 rural clinics to treat malaria, hookworm and yaws, built 1,000 miles of new roads, a half dozen new bridges of concrete and steel...
...called each other a liar with an admirable, if startling, baldness. Now comes President Roosevelt's plain answer to a long, decorous request from the President of Haiti that the United States withdraw its fiscal control over that country. While expressing a kindly word for the record of the Haitian government, nonetheless our own F. D. could not find it in his heart to grant this request. And why not? Because, as the Transcript neatly paraphrases it, "of the injustice Mr. Roosevelt feels such action would be to Haitian bondholders." It is understood this means Haitian bondholders living...