Evening star

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to the exile junta which

stands eager to fill the con

stitutional vacuum that will

exist after the President’s

term expires on Wednesday.

Any of these alternatives is

possible. Haitians regard

their politics like the weath

er—it rains or shines and

there is nothing one can do

about it. But none of these

alternatives holds any firm

prospect of altering the pat

tern of power struggles and

corruption which have

drained Haiti’s wealth and

potential.

Some maintain the United

had any real system of com

munications and did not want

one.

Efforts to overcome that

situation were made, but

generally with indifferent

success. Fear of losing status

among the whites involved

seemed to grow in proportion

to the determination of the

younger Negroes to improve

theirs. What this means in

human terms has been shown

in dispatches from Little

Rock, from Oxford and now

from Birmingham.

Faced with this roadblock,

the administration turned to

leaders of public opinion in

troubled areas. They did bet

ter there, but it is one of the

sadder aspects of this age of

bland conformity that they

found so few towering figures

who could and would appeal

to the public conscience.

The next hard look had to

be at the real money and

power and social structure

underlying such rich commu

nities as Birmingham. Ob

viously, it was not all local

Obviously, too, the men who

The World’s Finest Bourbon since 1795 .dKr. U

J

me as Governor are affronts

not only to me as Governor

but to the people of Ala

bama.”

An examination of the

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1963). Washington, D.C., 1963-05-14. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1963-05-14/ed-1/?sp=11

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1963-05-14.