Abstract

Editorials

The strikes that almost culminated in a rebellion, the riots in the customs houses, the affair at Aux Cayes where a marine patrol killed five Haitians and wounded twenty more, these events are the final demonstration that the fourteen years of Yankee rule in Haiti have been an ignoble failure. The U.S. began by destroying the parliamentary basis of the old governmental system and installed in its place a military despotism operating through the flimsy mask of a native dictatorship, they have taken over control of the finances and of the economic life of the island, but, as export figures show, they have not much improved the economic situation of the republic. U.S. President Herbert Hoover has asked Congress to authorize a commission to investigate conditions in Haiti.