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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: United States newspaper coverage of the island, gathered and translated for readers in both languagesLa República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: la cobertura de la isla en los periódicos de Estados Unidos, reunida y traducida para lectores en ambos idiomas
December 30, 193930 de diciembre de 1939 · Cleveland, Ohio · The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura

The gazette

SourceFuente: The gazette · Cleveland, Ohio · December 30, 193930 de diciembre de 1939
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83035387/1939-12-30/ed-1/?sp=1

In contextEn contexto

The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura · 1924–1960

Rafael Trujillo ruled for 31 years. US papers reported the 1930 hurricane that leveled Ciudad Trujillo, the 1937 Haitian massacre, sugar commerce, WWII U-boat sinkings, Tito Mella's Compañía Naviera Dominicana shipping fleet, and Trujillo's Washington lobbying.Rafael Trujillo gobernó durante 31 años. La prensa informó sobre el huracán de 1930, la masacre de 1937, el azúcar, hundimientos de submarinos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la flota de la Compañía Naviera Dominicana de Tito Mella.

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SummaryResumen

The *Gazette* contrasted the lavish military honors previously accorded to Latin American dictators like Trujillo with the restrained, informal reception given to visiting Haitian President Sténio Vincent in Washington. Despite Vincent being the sitting president of a nation of 2.6 million, he received no 21-gun salute, fanfare, or military parade, meeting only Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles and a small delegation at the station. Critics questioned the appropriateness of celebrating authoritarian figures while giving a chilly welcome to the head of a neighboring constitutional republic.

El *Gazette* contrastó los fastuosos honores militares dispensados con anterioridad a dictadores latinoamericanos como Trujillo con el austero e informal recibimiento ofrecido en Washington al mandatario haitiano Sténio Vincent. A pesar de que Vincent ejercía la presidencia en funciones de un país de 2,6 millones de habitantes, no se le rindieron salvas de 21 cañonazos, fanfarrias ni desfiles de tropas, siendo recibido en la estación ferroviaria únicamente por el subsecretario de Estado Sumner Welles y una reducida comitiva. Quienes criticaron la actitud oficial cuestionaron la idoneidad de exaltar a mandatarios autócratas mientras se brindaba una fría acogida al gobernante de una vecina república constitucional.

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The passage where this article was found, copied from the newspaper page itself, reading errors and all. This is exactly what the summary above is based on.El pasaje donde se encontró este artículo, copiado de la propia página del periódico, con sus errores de lectura y todo. Esto es exactamente aquello en lo que se basa el resumen de arriba.

priateness of endorsing home-grown

dictators while condemning the Eu

ropean variety”, and calling atten

j tion to the fact that Trujillo was no

I longer President of Santo Domingo,

and therefore entitled to no special

official courtesies.

President Vincent’s Chilly Official

Reception.

And now by way of contrast: the

reception tendered President Stenio

Vincent of Haiti on his arrival here,

early this month, was painfully in

adequate and restrained. No such

military display as w’as given Ba

tista, Somoza, and Trujillo was given

him, despite the fact that he is a

functioning President of a republic

in satisfactory, diplomatic relations

with our Government, and a part of

the Good Neighbor Society promoted

by the President and the State De

partment. Most informal was the re

ception given the active President of

the Little Black Republic, with a pop

ulation of approximately 2,600,000,

larger by 1,467,000 than Somoza’s

Nicaragua. President Vincent was

greeted at the station by Mr. Sum

ner Welles, under-secretary of state;

the President’s Naval and Military

aides, three representatives of the

State Department, Dr. Leo S. Rowe

of the Pan-American Union, and a

few policemen and spectators No

Presidential salute of 21 guns for

him; no fanfare, no military parade,

only the usual Presidential and State

Department luncheons; no gathering

of diplomatic dignitaries, none of the

marines, who once governed Haiti

with military might, no ceremonial

display of any kind, no firemen, no

artillery, no “nothing” in keeping

with the receptions show r n Heads of

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The gazette. (1939). Cleveland, Ohio, 1939-12-30. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83035387/1939-12-30/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The gazette, 1939-12-30.

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