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lumbus on November 22.

Pres, Lescot

To Visit U.S.

And Canada

WASHINGTON. (ANP) The

Canadian government has invited

President Elie Lescot of the Re

public of Haiti to be its official

guest. He was scheduled to arrive

at Miami on September 28 where

he wns to board a train of the

Atlantic Seaboard bound for Otta

wa. the capital, where he will bi

greeted by Prime Minister Mac-

Kenzie King.

All of this has been confirmed

by Andre Liautaud. Haitian min

ister to the United States. wh«

gave the Associated Negro Press

the first information on the forth

roming visit. M. Liautaud himself

left Washington Saturday for Mi

ami where he was going to meet

President Lescot. The visit of Les

cot to the dominion will represent

the first time in history that the

Canadian government has been host

to a Negro chief of state.

Unconfirmed but reliably report

ed is the fact that President Lescot,

upon the conclusion of his Cana

dian visit, will be the guest of the

American government as an official

visitor He was here early In 1942

but unofficially. For three years

before assuming the presidency of

the island republic, he was minister

to country, and won much per

sonal popularity.

No time has been set for the

completion of the Canadian visit

After leaving Ottawa, where elab

orate ceremonies are being ar

ranged. the distinguished person

will go to Montreal where an hon

orary degree will be conferred upon

him at the French-Canadian Laval

university. The tour will also take

him to Quebec.

Local 60 CIO, To

Give Dance Oct. 2

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The Michigan chronicle. (1943). Detroit, Mich., 1943-10-02. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045324/1943-10-02/ed-1/?sp=24

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Michigan chronicle, 1943-10-02.