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International Relations/Social Theory in a Small State: An Analysis of the Thought of Dantés Bellegarde

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
Patrick Bellegarde-Smith*
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Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
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      L'Idée, quand elle s'est
      completement incorporée à l'être
      moral, devient aussi impulsive
      que le sentiment, se transforme
      on peut dire en sentiment.
      — D. Bellegarde.

Louis-Dantès Bellegarde, (1877-1966), is acknowledged generally to have been the most significant and influential diplomat produced by the Republic of Haiti in this century. His first diplomatic assignment came fortuitously at age forty-four, when President Philippe-Sudre Dartiguenave appointed him on an impulse to the Paris legation, the Holy See, and to the League of Nations in 1921. In that period, he also served as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (The Hague), and was the Honorary President of the Second Pan-African Congress held under the aegis of W. E. B. DuBois. Previously, from age twenty-seven, he had occupied high governmental positions at the sub-cabinet and then cabinet level, primarily in the fields of education and agriculture. His formal training had been in law, banking, and commerce. That particular training was to serve him well, but color his perspective. The League's Council named him to the Commission of Slavery and Forced Labour in 1924. In 1927, he was a special guest at the Fourth Pan-African Congress held in New York. Later, in 1930, President Louis-Eugène Roy appointed him anew to France and the League of Nations where again he created a sensation.

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The Americas , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , October 1982 , pp. 167 - 184
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1982 

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