The daily worker

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ression” and as an aid “in breaking

down the confidence that the South

American and the Central American

nations have in the United States.”

“By secret treaties and by loans,

with their expected future obliga

tions,” King said, “the United States

has sealed Haiti’s subjugation for the

■i next forty years.” The senator called

I upon the United States government

;to restore to the Haitians the inde

pendence taken from them by the

American banks supported by the

United. States marines and American

I customs officials.

Haiti lost its independnece as a re

sult of occupation by the United

States forces during the Wilson ad

i ministration, in 1915. The occupation

came after a series of futile diplo

matic attempts to force the Haitians

to accept the loans of a group of New

York banks whose capital was to be

secured by customs receipts. The

Haitians failing to fall into this trap,

the marines were introduced and the

loans forcibly effected while Europe’s

attention was distracted by the war.

West Virginia College

Fires Two Professors;

Failed to Roost State

CHARLESTON, W. Va„ (FP)

Aug. 29.—Among the reasons given

for the summary discharge of two

teachers at Marshall College is their

failure to become “enthusiastic over

West Virginia and the United States

government." One of the teachers

was too close to the students in

charge of the school paper and the

other protested against the barring

of the American Mercury from the

college library. They were heads of

the departments of philosophy and

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The daily worker. (1927). Chicago, Ill.;New York, N.Y., 1927-08-30. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84020097/1927-08-30/ed-1/?sp=4

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The daily worker, 1927-08-30.