27 January 1955 · Haitian
Magloire addresses Congress and the Artibonite bill keeps rising
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The Artibonite scheme ran away from its budget. The Export Import Bank raised its fourteen million dollars to twenty one and then to twenty seven, and when the Peligre dam was completed in September 1956 without generating equipment the total stood at forty million against a 1951 estimate of eighteen. Haiti's debt to that one bank came to more than all its other debts combined. The presidency still had momentum. Magloire toured Venezuela, Colombia, Nicaragua, Panama and Puerto Rico in 1954, then went to Washington and addressed a joint session of Congress on 27 January 1955, telling the members that whatever clouds had passed between the two countries, Haiti believed its future was tied to theirs. Eisenhower asked him where he had collected his decorations and Magloire replied truthfully that he had earned them on the Champ de Mars. New York gave him a ticker tape parade in freezing snow. He never heard cheering like it again.
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