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George Barr Baker, Manhattan Republican, onetime newspaper man, talked to newsgatherers last week, but not for publication. The newsmen went away and wrote that President Calles of Mexico showed Mr. Baker last January copies of documents apparently signed by U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg, directed to the U. S. Ambassador at Mexico City, and of such purport that President Calles had made up his mind the U. S. intended war. Mr. Baker, so newsmen wrote, was instrumental in proving these communications forgeries-by whom forged, no one seemed to know-thus averting a crisis with Mexico...
Last week as President Borno, of Haiti, heard the combined U. S. fleet boom out the full presidential salute of 21 guns in his honor Brigadier General John H. Russell, U. S. High Commissioner of Haiti, quietly sent his annual report to Secretary of State Kellogg at Washington. Praise he gave to President Borno's administration; his report on the judicial system was less favorable, more revealing. "Trials by jury" he said, "are farcical. The jury is always opposed to the government. . . " The customs receipts had increased, he reported, under U. S. supervision. Meanwhile at the Haitian border, Negro...
...warships have not used their guns on the Nationalists before. All this flaming and rather tawdry blustering is not only shallow but dangerous as well if it is communicated to a State Department which is not particularly noted for solid good sense under the administration of Mr. Kellogg...
Forwith, Secretary of State Kellogg, after a consultation with Haitian Minister Hannibal Price, cabled President Borno that his objections to Mr. King are an affront to the U. S. Senate and a discredit to Haiti. Perhaps, said Secretary Kellogg, Mr. King might lose his hostility if allowed to visit Haiti. Within an hour President Borno cabled back that under no circumstances would he allow Mr. King to land on his shores. "Mr. King's utterances," said the Negro President, "are a personal insult to me and to my people...
...mighty U. S. gave in to the puny Negro Republic; Secretary Kellogg issued this statement: "Haiti is a sovereign republic and fully within her rights in saying who shall land there and there is nothing more which the United States can do about it. Senator King has been so notified...