The Archive · 1937

HAITI ASKS U.S. TO ACT MEDIATOR IN DISPUTE

Washington, Nov. 14.

The State Department here received a request yesterday from President Stenio Vincent of Hair to act as mediator in the dispute between Haiti and the Republic of Santo Domingo resulting from an alleged massacre of Haitian peasants by Santo" Domingo guards. The Cuban aad Mexican governments Fave received a similar request.

The State Department declared that the United States were ready io mediate on condition that the Cuban and Mexican governments are agreeable, and added that demarches have already been made with a view to obtaining the assent of the two governments concerned.

—Havas.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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