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«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

MINES IN CARIBBEAN

... MINES IN CARIBBEAN NEW YORK Thursday—lt reported at Bogota Colombia that two magnetic mines were recently found off the Colombian islands San Andre and Provldencla In the Carrlbbean, off the Nicaraguan coast and were sent to Cartagena for examination ...

Published: Friday 17 January 1941
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 46 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HUGE DEAL PLANNED

... dispose them profitably. UNIFIED COMMAND The consolidation of the United States Army Commands at the Panama Canal and in the Caribbean Area, order to strengthen the western hemisphere defences, is announced to-day by Mr, Stimson, the Secretary of War. The ...

Published: Friday 10 January 1941
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 304 | Page: 3 | 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

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

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

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

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

SHIPBUILDING DRIVE IN u.s

... working day for labourers and mechanics employed by the Government on constructing army and navy bases on the Atlantic and Caribbean sites leased from Great Britain.— Reuter. The President said that Mr. Hopkins would go to Britain to maintain personal contacts ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1941
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 611 | Page: 5 | 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

Death of Viscount Wakefield. best. In addition, they have occasionally been given convincing proof of our ..

... Colonel Knox announced that the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, together with the Army and Air Force, would carry out manoeuvres in the Caribbean beginning next Tuesday. Viscount Wakefield Hythe, one of Britain’s greatest philanthropists, died yesterday at Beaconsfield ...

Published: Thursday 16 January 1941
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2222 | Page: 4 | Tags: none