AnnouPale Haiti
History • Memory • Justice
A space inside AnnouPale to preserve, explore, and advance Haiti's history, our memory, and the pursuit of justice.
Editorial illustration — not a historical document
The U.S. account said $400,000 remained in the vaults. The Haitian account recorded $388,000 remaining. The figures differ, but both describe a remainder rather than an emptied deposit.
The Secretary of State to the Minister of Haiti, December 31, 1914, File No. 838.516/27, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Document 583.
Minister Bailly-Blanchard to the Secretary of State, December 30, 1914, File No. 838.516/55, enclosing the Haitian Department of Foreign Relations note verbale, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Document 581.
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Named readings of this claim, with who holds them.
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