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Atlanta Daily World · 27 February 1948

CP-1948-115

Haiti Defends Palestine Stand

New York, N. Y.

Haiti Defends Palestine Stand — Atlanta Daily World, 27 February 1948
Atlanta Daily World · 27 February 1948

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“NEW YORK, N. Y.—The Republic of Haiti has answered the Arab Higher Committee’s recent charge that pressure from the United States caused Haiti to vote for the partition of Palestine. In a press release dated February 10, Ernest Chauvet, the Permanent Delegate of Haiti to the United Nations declared: ‘Such allegations show that the authors ignore the directives followed, since the proclamation of our independence, by Haitian Governments. Because Haiti is a small country which constitutes on the continent a minority of race, language and culture, it has no other alternative but to follow a policy of dignity and to stand, with its modest resources, at the side of all who are oppressed… It is therefore perfectly natural that the Haitian Government did not remain indifferent to the fate of the Jewish peoples throughout the world…’ Mr. Chauvet concluded: ‘(The Haitian Government) affirms that it has remained consistent both in its present moral obligations, as with the historical necessities of the past, in giving its approval and its collaboration to a cause supported by the United Nations.’”

Context added by this archive

The first Black republic answering a charge that the United States leaned on it to vote for partition, in a Black daily in Atlanta. Haiti’s delegate does not deny the pressure; he argues that a small country of a minority race has no alternative but to stand beside the oppressed.

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"Haiti Defends Palestine Stand," Atlanta Daily World, 27 February 1948. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1948-115. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1948-115

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