Haitian Government documents, 1947-1953 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The Haitian Government Documents, 1947-1953, consists of diplomatic correspondence and documents pertaining to Haiti's relations with neighboring Dominican Republic between 1947 and 1950, and to the planning and implementation between 1948 and 1952 of a United Nations technical assistance mission to Haiti. The collection documents the Haitian side of the negotiations leading to the Pact of Bogota agreement of June 1949, and to the OAS Investigating Committee report adopted unanimously by the OAS Permanent Council on April 8, 1950. Included are communications between the Department of Foreign Affairs in Port-au-Prince and Haiti's representatives in the Dominican Republic and at the OAS; Dominican Ambassador Joaquin Salazar's countercharges translated into French; and two reports on Haitian-Dominican relations and on the 1937 massacre of Haitians in the Dominican Republic. Other documents pertaining to Haitian-Dominican relations include a seven-page letter by Dominican ambassador and author Manuel Peña Batlle, with attachments, concerning Price-Mars' appointment as ambassador to the Dominican Republic