Evening star

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whether blood flows in Haiti

or not. He has spent 57 years

of his life here, and not even

the threat of racial violence

and black nationalism can per

suade him that he ought to

leave.

Mr. Ashton was bom on a

boat in the middle of the Po

tomac River near the Morgan

town Bridge when his mother

lost a race with the stork in

1883.

Generals Toted Bags

Today he is a very erect man'

with iron-gray hair, looking 20'

years younger and very much

like Sir Bernard Montgomery,!

Viscount'of Alamein. He has.

the air of a man who has seen

all this before, as indeed he

has. He recalls that, in one

year during his residence here,

the presidency changed hands

seven times.

There was a time in 1907,

he remembered, when the Hai

tian army consisted of 12 men,

iall generals. They wore blue'

tunics, gold epaulets and

I striped trousers, but no shoes.

As generals, their main task

and source of income was un

loading the luggage of visitors

arriving in Port au Prince.

Mr. Ashton, a former diplomat

and a writer, will remain in

Haiti come hell or high water.

His young sons are going to

leave soon, but only because

they are due for military serv

ice back in the United States.

The nearest draft board is in

San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Another American who has

'no intention of leaving, al

though the threat of internal

Shrine Mass Honors

Patron of Teachers

A solmen pontifical mass

honoring St. John Baptist de la

Salle, patron of teachers, will

be offered at 9:30 a.m. Wednes

day in the great upper church

of the National Shrine of the

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1963). Washington, D.C., 1963-05-12. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1963-05-12/ed-1/?sp=6

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1963-05-12.