838.00/2620a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the High Commissioner in Haiti ( Russell )
Washington
, December
6, 1929—11 a.m.
63. While temporary detention of persons fomenting disorder may of course prove necessary the Department would not approve the trial of Haitians for serious offenses by military courts or the imposition of heavy sentences except in extreme cases and after the Department had had an opportunity to consider the facts and approve in advance the institution of proceedings.
Stimson