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 |
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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 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 129 - What no traveler has ever denied in regard to the people of Haiti is their great gentleness and the simplicity of their customs. Hospitable and kind, the Haitian receives the foreigner with cordiality. Any foreigner traveling in the interior of the country can call on the occupant of any cabin; he is always sure to be greeted with the most eager welcome.
Page 21 - I am sure that you gentlemen will understand my sentiment in this matter, and I am confident if the treaty fails of ratification that my Government has the intention to retain control in Haiti until the desired end is accomplished, and that it will forthwith proceed to the complete pacification of Haiti so as to insure internal tranquillity necessary to such development of the country and its industry as will afford relief to the starving populace now unemployed.
Page 16 - ... treasury of the Government, and as such receives all moneys of the Government, and further, is empowered to hold such moneys intact until the end of the fiscal year, which, in this particular case, would be September 30, 1915. There is nothing in the loan contract providing for advancements by the bank, and the convention budgetaire has been in the nature of an accommodation extended by the bank. As before stated, the suspension of the convention budgetaire most likely would bring the Government...
Page 41 - ... establish the finances of Haiti on a firm and solid basis, the Government of the United States and the Government of Haiti through duly authorized representatives agree upon this Protocol for the purpose of carrying out the objects of the aforesaid Treaty and of giving effect to Article 12 thereof. It is clearly understood that this Protocol does not in fact or by implication extend the provisions of the Treaty of September 16, 1915, hereinbefore mentioned.