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they w’ould not hesitate to shed their

blood in protest.

Dantes Bellegarde, secretary gen

eral of the Chamber of Commerce,

told commissioners Haiti had made

no progress during the years of oc

cupation.

W. Cameron Forbes, chairman of

the Hoover commission, said the

charge was so grave that figures

must be brought to prove it. Belle

garde replied he had figures and

would give them.

Assails U. S. Rule in Haiti.

Washington, D. C. —Last fall, Dec.

18 to be exact, Congressman Robert

Grosser of Cleveland told President

Herbert Hoover that from a per

sonal investigation he made in Haiti,

two years before, he believed the

sensational charges made by Maj.

Gen. Smedley D. Butler in Pitts

burgh, two weeks before, concern

ing conditions in Haiti and Nicara

gua were absolutely correct. Butler

DU BOIS SAYS

SMUTS LIED!

And Proceeds to Show the Real Situ

ation in South Africa—

Natives Outraged.

New York City.—ln the recent

Crisis, Editor W. E. B. Dußois has

an editorial, having reference to the

Jan Smuts-Howard University con

ference of some weeks ago, in which

he says:

“Why was it not perfectly in order

for some member of that (Howard

University) conference to ask Jan

Smuts, courteously but firmly, why

he had deliberately lied at Town

Hall, N. Y. City, and told a ques

tioner that an Afro-American could

buy land and live in South Africa?”

Reciting what Smuts has done

since 1924 when he first became a

member of the cabinet in Sojuth Af

rica and rose to prime ministier, Edi

tor Dußois says:

“1. All colored people have been

disfranchised, except in Cape Colony

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The gazette. (1930). Cleveland, Ohio, 1930-03-08. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83035387/1930-03-08/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The gazette, 1930-03-08.