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REPORTED U.S. PLANS

... the United States, co- Operating with other American Republics, has prepared plans for Geeupying French territory in the Caribbean area, if such a step is deemed necessary from hemisphere defence view.—Associated Press. ...

Published: Friday 25 October 1940
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 43 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

true that he is resigning

... Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, when asked if the French crisis affected the status of the French possessions in the Caribbean, said, according to the Exchange, that the phase was being handled on its own special merits. - Mr. Hull gave correspondents ...

Published: Saturday 26 October 1940
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 170 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

8-HOUR DAY SUSPENDED

... working day for labourers and mechanics employed by U.S. Government on constructing army and navy bases on the Atlantic and Caribbean sites leased from Britain has been suspended by President Roosevelt. Asked at his Press conference to explain the circumstances ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Air Chief’s Warning

... Aeronautics, told a Congressional Committee to-day. The consolidation of the U.S. Army Commands at the Panama Canal and in the Caribbean area in order to strengthen the ‘Western Hemisphere defences is announced to-day by Mr. Stimson, the Secretary of Wwar. The ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1313 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Errors and Other Things

... Errors and Other Things. You will not, however, learn.these facts in *“The Prodigious Caribbean.” The *student of international affairs limited in conviction by 20 years of experience ‘on the spot’ —to use her own boastful words—need never have left ...

Published: Tuesday 14 January 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 220 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

«THE PRODIGIOUS CARIBBEAN”

... PRODIGIOUS CARIBBEAN” The_ Prodigious Caribbean. By Rosita Forbes. (Cassell. 15/-.) FRENCH, Dutch and British colonies in the West Indies are 90 per cent. negro. The Spanish are 30 per cent The Spaniards were the only whites to settle in the Caribbean as small ...

Published: Tuesday 14 January 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 296 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

NAVAL SPEED.UP

... United States Atlantic Fleet will stage joint training manceuvres, beginning next Tuesday, with Army and Navy forces, in the Caribbean, Col. Knox announced. He described the manceuvres as a routine annual affair, and said he did not think that the Atlantic ...

Published: Thursday 16 January 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FLEET AT NEW BASE

... FLEET AT NEW BASE Kingston (Jamaica), Monday.— The first American Fleet operating from the new Caribbean bases today steamed out of Portland Bight (the base on the south coast of Jamaica leased to the United States under the agreement with Britain) for ...

Published: Tuesday 21 January 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 87 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Trinidad Governor for Britain

... way to Britain. They are to assist in settling matters arising out of the agreement for the lease of British bases in the Caribbean Sea to the United States.—Reuter. New British Postal Services Director Mr. H. O’Halloran has been appointed Director of British ...

Published: Tuesday 21 January 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 125 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

U.S. Extends Navy Control

... reliable foreign sc ays irom last ¥riday, alleCldi¢hay nearly 90,000 naval outposts in the Pacific|troops were now sts and the Caribbean. the islands of Haina The forbidden harbours in-{mosa. It is believec clude Great Harbour, Culebra;|l2,ooo Japanese tros ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 654 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OVER BRITAIN Bombs were dropned on a town in South-West England early to-day. No serious damage was reported. ..

... Buenos Aires, Tuesdav.—Gen. Frank Andrews, chief of the U.S. Air Forces in the Caribbean, followed up the American occupation of Iceland with the statement that the Caribbean bases were now ready to repul.e any attempt to invade the hemisphere in the South ...

Published: Wednesday 09 July 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 128 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

RADIO

... Table” (Play). 7.35-Geraldo's Band’ 80x.,” 8.30— Home. 9,o~Home, 9,20—-Choir. 9.35— “Volunteer Smith Entertains.” 10,0 “Caribbean Rhythm.” 10,30-—-Quintet, NEWS IN ENGLISH-7.0-8.8.C. Home. 7.ls—Overseas, 7.3o—Rome (13.15, 189.61 m,), 7.33 — Moscow (19 ...

Published: Friday 15 August 1941
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 2 | Tags: none