838.00/12–2349: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in the Dominican Republic
261. Dept views with serious concern increasing reports activities such as described in tel 253 Dec 23 from Port-au-Prince1 (rept by Dept to Ciudad Trujillo). Request you inf Pres Trujillo this Govt scrutinizing these accumulating rumors with considerable care and using every facility at command to ascertain true facts. Meanwhile this Govt assumes that in conformity with sense of declaration of June 9 neither Dom Govt nor Haitian Govt will directly or indirectly encourage or tolerate any activities which have purpose disturbing domestic peace its neighbor. You may inf Pres AmEmb Port-au-Prince being instructed convey identical message Pres Estimé.
- Not printed. The telegram reported some details of a recent abortive attempt to overthrow the Government of President Estimé by a Haitian group allegedly backed by Dominican officials (838.00/12–2349). On January 3, 1950, the Haitian Government presented details of the plot while formally requesting convocation of the Organ of Consultation of the OAS to consider the threat to peace posed by the Dominican Republic; see Annals, 1950, pp. 135–138. For the Dominican response, see ibid., pp. 138–141. The Council of the OAS, on January 6, 1950, agreed to convoke the Organ of Consultation.↩