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The Bystander Bookshelf: The Prating Puritan

... preaching female Puritans on what, I suppose, was the seventeenth century's equivalent of a cruise a voyage on a slaver to the Caribbean. Her Ivory Coast owes a good deal to that saltv, sauce piquante picturesque which the Beggar's Opera and Mr. Rex Whistler ...

Published: Wednesday 14 February 1940
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1255 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

FICTION or TRAVEL: Both Tastes are Catered for in This Week's New Books

... the discovery of Trini dad and the mouth of the Orinoco. Here is a story fit for heroes to swash- buckle in pearls gold a Caribbean storm a Robinson Crusoe episode a fight with an alligator; an expedition into the green hell of an Orinoco jungle the hideous ...

Published: Saturday 31 August 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1756 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

Uncle Sam Girds his Loins: An insight into the Armament Problems that beset the U.S.A

... defeat England, and, with their heavily armed allies, spread themselves over the British, French and Dutch possessions in the Caribbean, the vital Portuguese islands lying between the Bermudas and Lisbon, and occupy Green land, which belongs to the Nazi pr ...

Published: Sunday 01 September 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4703 | Page: 77 | Tags: Photographs 

WEST INDIAN BASES for the U.S.A.; and the FRENCH PACIFIC ISLANDS which HAVE JOINED FREE FRANCE

... the tropic features of a Wtest Indian island to this Nelsonic scene lying silently bathed in the brilliant sunshine of the Caribbean. There are open pillared yards, as well as big storehouses with dormered roofs. The great naval commanders strolled on these ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 928 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

Letter From America

... space was no longer available. This peevishness would soon disappear in an air raid, I guess. In Jamaican Sunshine From the Caribbean I hear that popular Bunt Pease of Roundhill has re captured his youth drilling the Volunteers that the F. W. Robertson's ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1940
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WORK OF THE CRUISER AS A RAIDER-CATCHER: Which Takes the Vessel into Tropic Seas and Up Jungle-lined Creeks ..

... lurking raider, or be employed on some other furtive and sinister errand below THE CRUISER SEARCHES A LONELY PATCH S.E. OF THE CARIBBEAN WITH A F.A.A. PLANE HELPING A wide, I apparently limitless sea stretches on every side, when the Fleet Air Arm plane is ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 652 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

CINEMA CAMEOS

... directing Ole Olsen (JOHN WAYNE), captain of the Glencairn, a liritish tramp loaded with ammunition, has anchored off a Caribbean island. CARMEN MORALES is one of the bumboat girls who have brought on board a load of fruit and smuggled plenty of rum with ...

Published: Wednesday 26 February 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1178 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

HITLER'S APPETITE FOR ISLANDS

... interest in islands is just as acute as our own, as was shown when Washington recently- as good as drew the teeth of the Vichy-Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe. Prior to that, our leasing of bases to the United States primarily involved islands ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1659 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

AMERICA FORMS a SCREEN of ATLANTIC ISLANDS: Part of Her New Strategy of Securing the American Mainland from ..

... used as concentration camps, and not for the first time. And so one shoots abruptly out to the Azores and across to the Caribbean Island fringe, upon which America sets so much store for the defence of Central America and the whole Panama Zone dividing ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1962 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

The DEFENCE of the PANAMA CANAL: An American Writer Describes How the United States Is Now Guarding This Vital ..

... Canal completely. we are working nara ana rapiaiy, dux ine nine element is certainly against us. Our policy of acquiring Caribbean bases began shortly after the war with Spain. Between that time and this, however, very little has been done until the United ...

Published: Saturday 19 July 1941
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1103 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

Islands of the Moon

... Africa and end in Syria it goes west to Martinique and east to Madagascar and' Indo-Cliina it covers island outposts in the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, as well as in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Red Sea. Japan covets the islands ...

Published: Monday 01 September 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3989 | Page: 78 | Tags: Photographs