1944-03: (The Cryptostegia Is More Unpredictable — by March 1944 a Year into Her Position Most Observers Knowing Despite Lescot’s National and International …

1944-03: (The Cryptostegia Is More Unpredictable — by March 1944 a Year into Her Position Most Observers Knowing Despite Lescot’s National and International Tours That SHADA Was Not Viable, Jeanne’s Letters Accounting for the Long-Standing Mistruths: “The Cryptostegia Is More Unpredictable No Doubt Because We Are Not Yet Sure of the Care That This Young Plant Needs and We Are Demanding Too Much of It” — Her More Astute Observation Being That the Hypercapitalist High-Returns-Driven Financial Desires Were Incongruent with Haiti’s Ecology): By March 1944, a year into her position, most observers knew, despite Lescot’s national and international tours, that SHADA was not viable. Three years into the project, Jeanne’s letters accounted for the long-standing mistruths of the work: the cryptostegia was more unpredictable, no doubt because they were not yet sure of the care that this young plant needed and they were demanding too much of it. That leaders on the project had not learned to care for the crops years into the project was concerning, but Jeanne’s more astute observation was that the hypercapitalist, high-returns-driven financial desires were incongruent with Haiti’s ecology — the sentence about demanding too much of the plant could have been written about the women whose labor SHADA also consumed.