1930-11-18: (The Political Tide Turns — Alice Garoute and Twelve-Year-Old Ghislaine in the Crowd Among the Wave of Refusal, At the End of the Commission It B…

1930-11-18: (The Political Tide Turns — Alice Garoute and Twelve-Year-Old Ghislaine in the Crowd Among the Wave of Refusal, At the End of the Commission It Being Clear That US Military Withdrawal Was Afoot Starting with the Replacement of Borno with Interim President Eugène Roy, On November 18 1930 Sténio Vincent Becoming President — a Decade Prior Antioccupation Women Had Walked the Streets to Fundraise for His Travel, With Vincent as President the Women Assuming They Would Have an Ally but Because of His Preoccupation with Maintaining Power and Repressing Threatening Agendas the Women Failing to Gain His Full Support — the Early Years of Women’s Postoccupation Organizing Involving a Keen Navigation of Shifting Philosophies Methods and Relationships): These girls and women turned the political tide. Alice Garoute and, by then, twelve-year-old Ghislaine were in the crowd and among the wave of refusal. At the end of the commission it was clear that a US military withdrawal was afoot, starting with the replacement of Grandma Alice’s childhood peer, President Louis Borno, with interim president Eugène Roy. Roy’s presidency was a six-month transitional position until the legislature voted for the new president. On November 18, 1930, Haitian nationalist and antioccupation leader Sténio Vincent became the new president. A decade prior, antioccupation women had walked the streets of Port-au-Prince to fundraise for Vincent’s travel to the United States. With Vincent as president, the women assumed they would have an ally and friend who understood and would support their growing political acumen. However, because of Vincent’s preoccupation with maintaining his own political power and repression of any political agenda that threatened his moderate agenda, the women failed to gain his full support. The man whose Washington journey they had financed door to door would not return the investment. As a result, the early years of Haitian women’s postoccupation organizing involved a keen navigation of shifting political philosophies, methods, and relationships — a wayfaring that was already, before its formal articulation, the defining practice of Haitian women’s politics.