Editorial Note
On June 9, 1949, the representatives to the Organization of American States of Haiti and the Dominican Republic signed a Joint Declaration [Page 446] reaffirming the intentions of the two countries to maintain good relations and “not [to] tolerate in their respective territories the activities of any individuals, groups, or parties, national or foreign, that have as their object the disturbance of the domestic peace of either of the two neighboring Republics or of any other friendly Nation.” (Text in Annals, 1949, page 326.)
The signing of the Joint Declaration was achieved principally through the efforts of the Inter-American Committee on Methods for the Peaceful Solution of Conflicts (composed of the OAS representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, and the United States), which intervened in the Haiti-Dominican Republic dispute on March 24 at the request of the Haitian Government, which felt that the Dominican Government was not taking sufficient action to terminate the activities of Colonel Astrel Roland following the COAS resolution of February 25, 1949.
A memorandum by Mr. E. A. Jamison, Assistant Chief of the Division of Special Inter-American Affairs, dated June 13, 1949, providing a summary record of developments in the Haiti-Dominican Republic dispute between February and June 1949 is contained in decimal file 738.39/6–1349.