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Haitian Government documents

Title: Haitian Government documents, 1947-1953.
Author: Haiti. Département des affaires étrangères.

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Summary

The Haitian Government Documents, 1947-1953, consists of diplomatic correspondence and documents pertaining to Haiti's relations with neighboring Dominican Republic between 1947 and 1950, and to the planning and implementation between 1948 and 1952 of a United Nations technical assistance mission to Haiti. The collection documents the Haitian side of the negotiations leading to the Pact of Bogota agreement of June 1949, and to the OAS Investigating Committee report adopted unanimously by the OAS Permanent Council on April 8, 1950. Included are communications between the Department of Foreign Affairs in Port-au-Prince and Haiti's representatives in the Dominican Republic and at the OAS; Dominican Ambassador Joaquin Salazar's countercharges translated into French; and two reports on Haitian-Dominican relations and on the 1937 massacre of Haitians in the Dominican Republic. Other documents pertaining to Haitian-Dominican relations include a seven-page letter by Dominican ambassador and author Manuel Peña Batlle, with attachments, concerning Price-Mars' appointment as ambassador to the Dominican Republic.
The collection also documents the various steps leading to the deployment of an economic and technical mission from the UN Economic and Social Council to assist the Estimé government in setting up a comprehensive development framework for Haiti. The UN Technical Assistance file comprises correspondence and other documents exchanged between the Haitian representation at the UN on the one hand, and President Estimé and Col. Antoine Levelt, a member of the Military Executive Committee that succeeded Estimé in power in 1950 on the other. Other documents pertain to a $4 million loan from the Export-Import Bank to finance an agricultural development project in the Artibonite Valley (1949); to Walter White, National Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; and to efforts to develop a ceramics village in 1947. There is also a correspondence file between Ambassador Joseph D. Charles in Washington and the General Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Max H. Dorsinville in Port-au-Prince.

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Michael Kaufman Antiques and Heirlooms

Biography (note)

In February 1949, the government of Haiti charged its Dominican counterpart of violating Haitian sovereignty by taking part in a plot involving Astrel Roland, ex-Colonel from the Haitian military and a protégé of Dominican president Rafael Trujillo, to overthrow Haitian president Dumarsais Estimé. On June 9, 1949, the two governments signed an agreement, under the American Treaty on Pacific Settlement (Pact of Bogota), that prohibited any hostile activity on their territory that could disrupt the peace and stability of the neighboring country. In January 1950, the Haitian government brought new charges at a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States of a plot to burn down the Dominican embassy in the Haitian capital as a pretext for the Dominican Republic to invade Haiti. A five-member OAS investigative committee found that a close associate of President Trujillo, Anselmo Paulino, had "played the principal part" in the ongoing Roland conspiracy, and recommended various diplomatic, economic and military sanctions, under the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty). Max Dorsinville was the General Secretary of the Haitian Department of Foreign Affairs between 1946 and 1952. Joseph D. Charles succeeded by Joseph L. Déjean represented Haiti at the OAS during the crisis. The writer Jean Price-Mars was Haiti's ambassador in the Dominican Republic, while the historian Timoléon C. Brutus served as minister of foreign affairs.

Provenance (note)

Max H. Dorsinville was General Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Haiti between 1946 and 1953. The collection was found outside his New York residence after his death in 2005.

Call Number

Sc MG 770

OCLC

176632102

Author

Haiti. Département des affaires étrangères.

Title

Haitian Government documents, 1947-1953.

Biography

In February 1949, the government of Haiti charged its Dominican counterpart of violating Haitian sovereignty by taking part in a plot involving Astrel Roland, ex-Colonel from the Haitian military and a protégé of Dominican president Rafael Trujillo, to overthrow Haitian president Dumarsais Estimé. On June 9, 1949, the two governments signed an agreement, under the American Treaty on Pacific Settlement (Pact of Bogota), that prohibited any hostile activity on their territory that could disrupt the peace and stability of the neighboring country. In January 1950, the Haitian government brought new charges at a meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States of a plot to burn down the Dominican embassy in the Haitian capital as a pretext for the Dominican Republic to invade Haiti. A five-member OAS investigative committee found that a close associate of President Trujillo, Anselmo Paulino, had "played the principal part" in the ongoing Roland conspiracy, and recommended various diplomatic, economic and military sanctions, under the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty). Max Dorsinville was the General Secretary of the Haitian Department of Foreign Affairs between 1946 and 1952. Joseph D. Charles succeeded by Joseph L. Déjean represented Haiti at the OAS during the crisis. The writer Jean Price-Mars was Haiti's ambassador in the Dominican Republic, while the historian Timoléon C. Brutus served as minister of foreign affairs.

Provenance

Max H. Dorsinville was General Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Haiti between 1946 and 1953. The collection was found outside his New York residence after his death in 2005.

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Charles, Joseph D.

Estimé, Dumarsais, 1900-1953.

Salazar, Joaquín A.

Price-Mars, Jean, 1876-1969.

Brutus, Timoléon C.

Peña Batlle, Manuel Arturo.

Alexis, Stéphen.

Chauvet, Ernest.

Levelt, Antoine.

United Nations Mission of Technical Assistance to the Republic of Haiti.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 770

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