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When a United Nations committee criticized the Haitian press last year as one of the worst trained in the hemisphere, President Dumarsais Estimé decided that it was high time for Haiti to start learning its journalistic ABCs. He summoned blonde, blue-eyed Edith Efron, 27, a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and an ex-newshen (the Lawton (Okla.) Constitution, the New York Times), and invited her to start a journalism course at the University of Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Uproar in Haiti | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Efron is the Manhattan-born wife of Fortuné Bogat, a Haitian business agent for U.S. manufacturers (General Motors, RCA, Goodyear, Du Pont). Stepmother of three children, mother of a fourth and mistress of a mountainside mansion overlooking Port-au-Prince, she had a self-deprecating reply to President Estimé's invitation: she had "never taught anybody anything." But, she said, she was willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Uproar in Haiti | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...exclusive Page One interview, black President Estimé renounced the color-conscious "black" politics on which he had campaigned, declared that black Haitians were no more "authentic" than any others. When they got a look at Journal, Estimé's ardently "black" political chieftains threatened to desert his camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Uproar in Haiti | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Haitian audience for its 8 o'clock Spanish music broadcast. One night last week, the station changed the program without notice. Instead of Spanish rhythms, startled Haitians heard a bland, firm voice calling for the overthrow of "that bloodthirsty, dishonest, cowardly assassin," Haitian President Dumarsais Estim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Fighting Words | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...that of Haitian Colonel Astrel Roland, accused by the Haitian government a fortnight ago of heading a Dominican-backed plot against the regime. The coffee-colored colonel denied that there had been any conspiracy. He promised to return to Haiti. He also promised to restore the mulatto rule which Estimé's blacks had supplanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Fighting Words | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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