Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote last week the Negro editor of Harlem's Amsterdam News But "brutal, arrogant, prejudiced" were no words to apply in Negro newspaper or elsewhere to at least one U. S. Marine in Haiti, the Marine known as King Wirkus I of La Gonave, whose Haitian career, unusual and newsworthy, approached its end last week...
...10?Holding of Haitian national elections, to elect successor to temporary President Eugene...
...League week was that of Haiti's spitfire delegate, M. Dantes Bellegarde. He began with a tirade against President Herbert Hoover and "Yankee Imperialism" in general. He ended by declaring that what he had voiced was no personal opinion but the considered attitude of the Haitian Government...
...quick to help. President Hoover was publicly and officially shocked and grieved, the American Red Cross sent $50,000. The Haitian government voted $20,000 more. From the Marine Corps base at Port au Prince, Haiti, an officer flew over on reconnaissance trip. He reported...
...Henri Christophe, who reigned from 1811 to 1820) stands sole witness to the potentialities of organized, industrious Haiti citizens. Since the time of King Christophe, especially since 1915 when the U. S. assumed responsibility for quelling wholesale murders in Haiti, nothing, not even U. S. Marines, has made the Haitians a nation worthy of La Ferrière. Last year President Hoover thought that something more should be done. He sent one more commission to investigate Haitian conditions. Its recommendation: withdrawal of U. S. paternal offices, restoration of national status...