Occupied Haiti: Being the Report of a Committee of Six Disinterested Americans Representing Organizations Exclusively American, Who, Having Personally Studied Conditions in Haiti in 1926, Favor the Restoration of the Independence of the Negro RepublicEmily Greene Balch Writers Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1927 - 186 pages |
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Occupied Haiti: Being the Report of a Committee of Six Disinterested ... Emily Greene Balch Affichage du livre entier - 1927 |
Occupied Haiti: Being the Report of a Committee of Six Disinterested ... Emily Greene Balch Affichage du livre entier - 1927 |
Occupied Haiti: Being the Report of a Committee of Six Disinterested ... Emily Greene Balch Affichage du livre entier - 1927 |
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administration Admiral Caperton African agricultural Ameri American Occupation American officials Americans in Haiti amount approximately Article BALCH Banque Nationale Blair Niles bonds Borno Cap Haitien cent CHAPTER Civil Claims Commission coffee color Constitution contract courts customs Dantès Bellegarde Department deposits elected EMILY G EMILY GREENE BALCH ernment export fact feeling Financial Adviser force foreign France freedmen French Gendarmerie gendarmes given Gonaïves Haitian government history of Haiti independent International island labor land Léger legislation loan Lycées Marine Corps McCormick Committee ment military National Assembly National City Bank negro paid payment peasant Pétion plantation political population Port-au Port-au-Prince present President of Haiti railroad Railroad of Haiti refused Republic of Haiti République d'Haïti revenues revolutions roads rural salaries schools secure Senate Service d'Hygiène slavery slaves teachers tion Toussaint L'Ouverture Treaty United women York
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Page 32 - The only possible authorization is that phrase in the treaty which states that "the United States will lend an efficient aid for ... the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty." It seems that at any rate the United States government should not have the exclusive power of interpreting the meaning of this phrase. The United States also effectively controls all legislation in this "sovereign and independent
Page 41 - ... to create without delay an efficient constabulary, urban and rural, composed of native Haitians. This constabulary shall be organized and officered by Americans, appointed by the President of Haiti, upon nomination by the President of the United States.
Page 41 - Adviser and their assistants ; and it is further agreed that the control by an officer or officers duly appointed by the President of Haiti, upon nomination by the President of the United States, of the collection and allocation of the hypothecated revenues, will be provided for during the life of the loan after the expiration of the aforesaid Treaty so as to make certain that adequate provision be made for the amortization and interest of the loan.
Page 22 - PREAMBLE. The United States and the Republic of Haiti desiring to confirm and strengthen the amity existing between them by the most cordial cooperation in measures for their common advantage...
Page 22 - The Government of the United States will, by its good offices, aid the Haitian Government in the proper and efficient development of its agricultural, mineral and commercial resources and in the establishment of the finances of Haiti on a firm and solid basis.
Page 163 - The imposition and enforcement of martial law without a declaration of war by our Congress and the conduct of offensive operations in Haiti by Admiral Caperton prior to the acceptance of the treaty by Haiti were equally clear violations of international law and of our own constitution. "4. The methods employed by the United States in Haiti to force acceptance and ratification of the treaty framed by the United States, namely, the direct use of military...
Page 16 - If then, at the end of the fiscal year, on September 30, the bank shall not have renewed the convention, the government will find itself without funds of any sort, and with no income, and undoubtedly will find it most difficult to operate. The statement that the government, in the absence of a budget convention, will be without income is based upon the fact that under the terms of the Loan Contract of 1910, the bank is designated as the sole treasury of the government, and as such receives all moneys...
Page 23 - The present treaty shall remain in full force and virtue for the term of ten years, to be counted from the day of exchange of ratifications, and further for another term of ten years if, for specific reasons presented by either of the high contracting parties, the purpose of this treaty has not been fully accomplished.
Page 22 - Haiti desiring to confirm and strengthen the amity existing between them by the most cordial cooperation in measures for their common advantage ; And the Republic of Haiti desiring to remedy the present condition of its revenues and finances, to maintain the tranquillity of the Republic, to carry out plans for the economic development and prosperity of the Republic and its people ; And the United States being in full sympathy with all of these aims and objects and desiring to contribute in all proper...
Page 91 - The Republic of Haiti, being desirous to further the development of its natural resources, agrees to undertake and execute such measures as, in the opinion of the high contracting parties, may be necessary for the sanitation and public improvement of the Republic under the supervision and direction of an engineer or engineers, to be appointed by the President of Haiti upon nomination of the President of the United States, and authorized for that purpose by the Government of Haiti.