A bomb factory at Mahotieres buys Duvalier a state of siege

Newspapers were raided and bombed through the spring of 1958. Georges Petit went to prison for what his paper printed, and so did Jacques Alexis. On 30 April a hut at Mahotieres near Carrefour blew up, and the government named it a bomb factory belonging to its two chief rivals. On 2 May the legislature voted Duvalier a state of siege, a curfew and censorship of the press. Louis Dejoie, who had run against him the year before, took refuge in the Mexican embassy and settled in Oriente province in Cuba, where he began recruiting among the 120,000 Haitians living there. The Jumelle brothers went into the hills. By midsummer, informers abroad were telling Port-au-Prince that an expedition was fitting out in Florida. On the night of 28 July the Molly C, a fifty five foot fishing boat out of Marathon Island, lay off Deluge north of Montrouis with three cashiered Haitian officers and five Americans hired at two thousand dollars each, three of them former deputy sheriffs. A peasant had already reported the boat.

White settlement in Kenya took the best farmland out of African hands and pushed the people who had worked it into crowded reserves. Colonial officials then blamed African methods for soil erosion and imposed farming rules that made the reserves harder still to live in. Those who left for Nairobi joined a growing urban poor the authorities treated as a criminal class. In 1947 the Kenya African Union was founded under Jomo Kenyatta and expanded quickly into a mass movement, run by moderates and filling up with people who owned nothing and were prepared to fight for land. Killings in the countryside began at the end of the 1940s and became sustained war through 1951 and 1952. The Kikuyu split along the same line. Kenyatta wanted peaceful change. The leaders of the landless wanted land and freedom. When the fighting spread across the White Highlands the British banned the KAU and imprisoned Kenyatta, who had had almost nothing to do with it.

Destin records that Magloire reached celebrity status in the United States when Eisenhower invited him for a state visit, having made the cover of a national magazine the year before. The tour was received with publicity, especially over his views on race in America. As a guest in the wake of the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision, the leader of the first black republic was interviewed about the case and predicted that discrimination in the United States would soon be a bad dream. He received an honorary doctorate of law from a black sociologist serving as a university president, and further honours in New York. Destin sets the visit inside the period called the golden age, when coffee prices were high and the country was the only one in the Caribbean where the tourist industry was controlled by nationals.

A writer signing as H.P.J. published two columns in the Daily Gleaner in Kingston in June 1955. The first, on the eighth, said that proposals to change the marketing system came from harassed Marketing Department officials who were listening to small farmers whose system was collapsing, while consumers paid high prices that never improved the producer's lot. The second, on the twenty third, said that few higglers in any category made much money, and that their willingness to work for tiny margins had blocked the growth of greengrocers with telephones and delivery vans. The two charges pull against each other. In one the trader takes too much out of the chain. In the other she takes so little that no better paid trade can establish itself. Jamaica had no formal plan to abolish higglering at the time. The criticism came from middle class townspeople in conversation and in the press, some of whom also complained to visiting researchers about the rudeness of market women.