1939-1941: (The Wartime Transition — The Women’s Organizational Front Evolving Between Wartime Strategies and the Transition in Presidential Leadership, Worl…

1939-1941: (The Wartime Transition — The Women’s Organizational Front Evolving Between Wartime Strategies and the Transition in Presidential Leadership, World War II Starting in September 1939 and Élie Lescot Elected President of Haiti in May 1941, Lescot Ambitiously Launching Haiti into War in Support of the Allied Powers and Also Launching the Nation into Several Wartime Projects That Adversely Affected the Economy Including a Jewish Placement Program for Those Escaping Nazi Europe and a Rubber-Planting and Extracting Program to Supplement the US Rubber Demand After Axis Powers Cut Off Allied Access to the Philippines Rubber Markets): The women’s organizational front was also evolving between wartime strategies and the transition in presidential leadership in Haiti. World War II started in September 1939, and Élie Lescot was elected president of Haiti in May 1941. When Lescot ambitiously launched Haiti into war in support of the Allied Powers, he also launched the nation into several wartime projects that adversely affected the economy. These projects included a Jewish placement program for those escaping Nazi Europe and a rubber-planting and extracting program to supplement the US rubber demand after Axis powers cut off Allied access to the Philippines rubber markets — Haiti’s entry into the global war opened new economic arteries that extracted more than they delivered, the nation’s resources once again conscripted into a conflict that was not of its making.