Abstract

Victory in Haiti

This article presents information on the U.S. President's Commission for the Study and Review of Conditions in the Republic of Haiti-to give the official title under which it works-has accomplished more work of reconciliation in one short week than would have seemed humanly possible at the outset. Owing to a wholly unintentional vagueness in defining their work in the statement given to the local press on their arrival, they laced a practical boycott from the Nationalists. Only by the quick work of a few extraordinarily level headed Haitians assisted by a few Americans in whom they reposed complete confidence was the mist of cynicism and distrust dispelled and a beginning made. Once the barriers were broken, the commission itself by its frank efforts to know the truth won the complete faith of all groups.