Excerpt from Self-Determining Haiti: Four Articles Reprinted From the the Nation Embodying a Report of an Investigation Made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Together With Official Documents The fact is that for nearly a year before forcible inter vention on the part of the United States this government was seeking to compel Haiti to submit to peaceable inter vention. Toward the close of 1914 the United States noti fied the government of Haiti that it was disposed to recog nize the newly-elected president, Theodore Davilmar, as soon as a Haitian commission would sign at Washington satis factory protocols relative to a convention with the United States on the model of the dominican-american Convention. On December 15, 19 the Haitian government, through its Secretary of Foreign Affairs, replied: The Government of the Republic of Haiti would consider itself lax in its dutyto the United States and to itself if it allowed the least doubt to exist of its irrevocable intention not to accept any control of the administration of Haitian affairs by a foreign Power. On December 19, the United States, through its le gation at port-au-prince, replied, that in expressing its willingness to do in Haiti What had been done in Santo Domingo it was actuated entirely by a disinterested desire to give assistance. Two months later, the Theodore government was over thrown by a revolution and Vilbrun Guillaume was elected president. Immediately afterwards there arrived at Port au-prince an American commission from Washington - the Ford mission. The commissioners were received at the National Palace and attempted to take up the discussion of the convention that had been broken off in December, 1914. However, they lacked full powers and no negotiations were entered into. After several days, the Ford mission sailed for the United States. But soon after, in May, the United States sent to Haiti Mr. Paul Fuller, Jr., with the title Envoy Extraordinary, on a special mission to apprise the Haitian government. That the Guillaume administration would not be recognized by the American government unless Haiti accepted and signed the project of a convention which he was authorized to present. After examining the pro ject the Haitian government submitted to the American commission a counter-project, formulating the conditions under which it would be possible to accept the assistance of the United States. To this counter-project Mr. Fuller pro posed certain modifications, some of which were accepted by the Haitian government. On June 5, 1915, Mr. Fuller ac knowledged the receipt of the Haitian communication re garding these modifications, and sailed from port-au-prince. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.