Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution for a commission to investigate Haitian conditions...
...mission of the First Brigade, Marine Corps, in Haiti has undergone no change. Intercourse with the Haitian people becomes increasingly cordial and very little friction manifests itself...
...wrote Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams last month in preparing his department's annual report. On the day his report was published last week sufficient Haitian friction had developed to warrant the dispatch of extra U. S. forces to the trouble-stricken black republic of the West Indies...
...exercised a virtual protectorate over Haiti. Under a 1916 treaty, U. S. armed forces are in the republic for three purposes: 1) to protect U. S. lives and property; 2) to help support a stable government and suppress cannibalistic bandits; 3) to prevent, by administering the Haitian customs, European creditor nations from interfering in Haiti's affairs. In 1919 occurred an uprising against the U. S. which Haitians claimed cost 3,500 lives. In 1922 Louis Borno became President; in 1927 the Haitian Parliament dissolved...
Lieutenant Berry enlisted in the U. S. Marines in 1914 and served through the Haitian campaign of 1915-16. He served a Midshipman's cruise on the U. S. S. Wisconsin during the World War, and was graduated from Annapolis...