CHANGE SOUGHT
HAITI’S FINANCIAL PLIGHT. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright > WASHINGTON, January 22. The Haitian Foreign Minister is charging the United States with maintaining on the island what be terms “a financial dictatorship, which is constant source of difficulios and of grave unoatsiness.” He has requested the State Department to permit either the establishment of a new ii son 1 agency for the repayment of Haitian loans from American investors, or steps to be taken “for n refunding loan before it is due.” The Haitian Foreign debt totals fifteen million dollars. The United 'States placed its marines ait Haiti in If) In following on the assassination’ of President Theodore. A treaty was recently concluded relaxing the American control over tho majority of Haiti’s civil services lint the United States has asked the marines to remain to safeguard the interests of American investors.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1932, Page 5
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