Il voto che cambiò la storia: Haiti e la decolonizzazione italiana

In 1949 the Bevin-Sforza compromise did not get the two-third majority for just one vote in the general Assembly of the United nations. It was the end of the Italian dream to stay in Africa after the treaty of peace. This “missing vote” had been the vote of the Republic of Haiti, represented by its ambassador Émile Saint-Lôt. If Haiti had voted with the rest of the Latin American States on Tripolitania, the resolution would have had a good chance of success. The reasons of the contrary vote are still not completely clear. This article tries to shed light on the reason of the contrary vote and the role of Haiti in the Italian decolonization discussed in the General Assembly.