Evening star., 1934-04-08
BY GASTON NERvAL.

4NLnV AZ.
THE President of Haiti will ar
rive in Washington in the next
few days. He is the second
Il Latin American chief eXecu-
tive to visit the United States
since the beginning of the present ad-
ministration. A few months ago
President Arias of Panama was the
| guest of President Roosevelt at the
| White House, and the outcome of that
I visit was a general agreement on pol
/ icieS to be pursued by the govern
ments of the United States and Pana-
ma tending to an improvement in
their mutual relations.
! When the Panamanian chief exec
utive disembarked in New York, the
newspapers said that he had come to
the United States in search Of new
deal" from the Nation which had such
important political and economic con-
nections with his own country. The
specific questions which he was to
discuss with President Roosevelt could
not be disclosed then. naturally, but
from a review of the outstanding
problems involved and from the ut
terances of the Panamanian authori-
ties, it was clear that the purpose of
the presidential visit was to secure
the correction of certain misunder-
standings and anomalies arising out
OF the canal treaty Of 1904. Panama
wanted fairer treatment than she
had received in the past. She wanted
new deal"
Haitians Want New Deal"
With the Haitian Presidents visit
it is little different. Haiti has al
ready been accorded new deal" by
the present Government of the United
States. In fact, it was the conclu-
sion of the United States Haitian
agreement of last August, at Port au
Prince. that was hailed as the first
expression Of the Roosevelt policy of
good neighborliness" toward Latin
America. But that agreement, favor
able as it was to Haiti in comparison
with the treatment received at the
hands OF previous administrations,
did not eliminate all the evils. 1t
left standing some of the grievances
of Haitians for the control of their
national finances by representatives
Of the United States. The August,
1888. agreement was step in the
right direction. sizable step, at
that; truly a new deal" for Haiti,
comparatively speaking, but it did not
suppress all the causes for complaint
on the part of the island republic.
So now the Haitians want a new
deal in the new deal" Encouraged
by the often-stated desire of the
Roosevelt administration to end all
traces Of intervention in Latin Ameri-
ca and to correct the errors of past
policies, they feel justified in object
ing to the continuance of financial
supervision by the United States, even
though this was included in last year S
agreement.
In Port au Prince. the capital of
Haiti, the Haitian minister of foreign
affairs, now Minister to Washington
and the diplomatic representative of
the United States signed, on August
7, 1888. an executive agreement
providing for the 'Hajtianization" OF
the Garde d'Haiti. or constabulary
the withdrawal of United States Ma
rines by October. 1884, and a read
justment of American financial super
vision
During the last few months of the
Hoover administration treaty seek
ing similar objectives but different in
method, had been rejected bv the
Haitian Senate. One of the main OBJ
jections to it had been a clause speci-
flying that ''if serious disturbances or
other difficulties in Haiti. now unfore-
seen. should arise" it might prove i'm
possible to carry out the "Haitianiza- :
ton" of the garde. and therefore the
withdrawal of the Marines by the
date specified, some time in Decem-
ber, 1884. This was, Intentionally or
not. a joker in the treaty and re-
sembled too closely the language used
in the compacts originally sanction
ing American armed intervention for
the protection of American financial
interests.
The new agreement substituted fol
it provision that the President Of