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BOOK REVIEW
BAIRD

If Haiti is a dictatorship, as Greene and others depict it, why are there no U.S. soldiers there to "preserve democracy" as in the Dominican Republic and in Vietnam, and why are no expeditions against Dr. Duvalier aided by the U.S. as they have been against Dr. Castro: Is it because Dr. Duvalier proclaims himself anti-Communist?

Mr. Greene had made an interesting and edifying display of the dirty linen of the "black Republic" of Haiti. It is to be hoped that some further masterly exhibitions of this kind will soon be forthcoming. The players of fantastic roles-the "comedians" in Spain, Portugal, and the Union of South Africa, to name only three candidates- await his scrutiny and his narrative virtuosity. In the meantime, it devolves on the present regime in Haiti to clear its name, and for the great North American "champion of democracy" to explain its curious inaction in the face of the damning allegations made plainly and in parable against the Duvalier regime. For as novelist Rosa Guy has remarked (FREEDOMWAYS, Summer 1964), "To equivocate on the needs of the people for mere self-indulgence or for political expediency is to place the people of Haiti on the chopping block of time. The people of Haiti were waiting and they will be free."
[[italics]] Keith E. Baird [[italics]]

[[italics]] TWO GOOD BOOKS ON THE CIVIL WAR [[italics]]

SISTERS AND BROTHERS. By Janet Stevenson. Crown Publishers, New York. 1966. 278 pages. $4.95.

LET US HAVE PEACE. By Howard N. Meyer. Macmillan (Collier Books), New York. 244 pages. $2.95.

EVERY OBSERVER today knows that the social revolution which began with the Civil War has never been completed, and the nation is still in the throes one hundred years later. Moreover, the controversial issues are still being fought out not only in street demonstrations and in legislative halls, but in books as well; for the revolution is also a struggle for the minds of men. Since young people, in the main, have been brainwashed by misrepresentation, in most of their textbooks, of slavery, the War, Reconstruction, and the role of Negroes in United States history, it is gratifying to find two books such as 

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