FICHE ELIE LESCOT
“RAFAEL TRUJILLO Y ELIE LESCOT: EL PODER DEL JEFE EN LA ISLA” https://medium.com/@gilbertmervilus/rafael-trujillo-y-elie-lescot-el-poder-del-jefe-en-la-isla-bd139c012a61
“LE PRÉSIDENT HAITIEN QUI DÉCLARA LA GUERRE A L’ALLEMAGNE, L’ITALIE et LE JAPON” https://medium.com/@gilbertmervilus/le-pr%C3%A9sident-haitien-qui-d%C3%A9clara-la-guerre-a-lallemagne-l-italie-et-le-japon-c43cb86e481f
«JE DECLARE LA GUERRE A L’ALLEMAGNE»” https://medium.com/@gilbertmervilus/je-declare-la-guerre-a-lallemagne-eacd80a464a2
“Le président Lescot accompagne jusqu’à sa résidence à Pétion-Ville l’ancien président Sténio…” https://medium.com/@gilbertmervilus/le-pr%C3%A9sident-lescot-accompagne-jusqu%C3%A0-sa-r%C3%A9sidence-%C3%A0-p%C3%A9tion-ville-l-ancien-pr%C3%A9sident-st%C3%A9nio-e04739df77a
“Why Haiti Remains Poor” https://medium.com/@gilbertmervilus/this-photograph-from-early-1946-is-a-rare-record-of-a-gathering-of-the-intellectual-vanguard-of-21eee0fc7c1d
“LE PREMIER ARTICLE PUBLIÉ SUR L’ACADÉMIE MILITAIRE D’HAÏTI, en 1945…” https://medium.com/@gilbertmervilus/le-premier-article-publi%C3%A9-sur-lacad%C3%A9mie-militaire-d-ha%C3%AFti-5a6f56349ad0
“Enlaces Rafael Leonidas Trujillo y Molina” https://medium.com/@gilbertmervilus/enlaces-rafael-leonidas-trujillo-y-molina-b3bedffa9205
a suivre…
ELIE LESCOT DIES; LEADER IN HAITI
SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMESOCT. 23, 1974
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 22 (AP) — Elie Lescot, President of Haiti from May 15, 1941, to Jan. 11, 1946, died today at La Boule, Haiti. He was 90 years old.
A Violent Regime
Elie Lescot was a suave, affable man of great charm that masked his rule as a harsh dicator.
As President he ruled his Caribbean nation by martial law and put sharp restrictions on the press. He lived well, just as he had in prevous years, as Ambassador to the United States.
On one occasion, during his tour of duty in Washington, he received $60,000 from Port au Prince to buy arms. He spent $35,000 without buying a single, gun, and was saved only by a check from Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, the dictator of the neighboring Dominican Republic.
Popular at the outset of his Presidency, he soon fell from favor even with the wealthy mulatto elite ruling class.
They charged that he had allowed his sons, Foreign Minister Gerard Lescot and Lieutenant Roger Lescot, to acquire expropriated German property, and they feared that he had lost official favor with the United States.
In his five‐year regime living costs multiplied threefold and the average peasant was getting by on a single meal a day.
Mr. Lescot was overthrown on Jan. 11, 1946, by a coup headed by Col. Frank Levaud, the Army Chief of Staff. A military communiqué explained that the Lescot Government had been unable to organize a new Cabinet, including representatives of all parties, to face what it called the country’s “exceptionally tragic situation.”
The Haitians celebrated the change with wild demonstrations, mass excitement and violence, with several persons ?? and others beaten by the police.
The immediate cause for the ouster of Mr. Lescot, the third attempt to unseat him, was the Government’s closing of a student newspaper and forcible dissolution of the student demonstrations held in protest.
It was not until the following August that full quiet was restored and a new President, Dumarsais Estime, a Democrat and a “black moderate,” was elected by the General Constitutent Assembly.
ELIE LESCOT DIES; LEADER IN HAITI https://nyti.ms/2Eqt5gg
