Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between Sierra Leone and the Ivory Coast, there stretches 350 miles of junglous coastline. Back of it, for some 200 miles into the interior of Africa, there are great jungles, and 2,000,000 Negroes and 120 white men. About 50,000 of the Negroes are civilized and run an independent sovereign republic and have done so for 78 years. They speak English. They elect a President, a Senate and a House of Representatives They have a Cabinet consisting of a Secretary of State, a Secretary of the Treasury, a Secretary of the Interior, an Attorney General, a Postmaster General...
...experiment in amalgamating these varied factors into a real Nation, with the ideals and aspirations of a united People. . . Immigrants and sons of immigrants from the Central European countries fought side by side with those who descended from the countries which were our Allies; with the sons of equatorial Africa; and with the red men of our own aboriginal population, all of them equally proud of the name Americans...
...years ago he converted his impressions of Africa into a play called Kinangozi. And when it was produced by a distinguished cast of Swedish actors, who greasepainted themselves into the likeness of Negroes, the sensation created in Stockholm was so great that the play later passed triumphantly to Oslo, Norwegian capital, and was acclaimed there...
...Curle has been an extensive traveller in South America, the West Indies, Africa, the Near East, Burma, the Malay States, and in other parts of the world. His private collection of manuscripts connected with Conrad and Hudson is unique. He is a sportsman and author as well, among the books he has written being "Joseph Conrad: a Study", "Aspects of George Meredith", "Into the East", "Wanderers", "Shadows Out of the Crowd", and other volumes...
Flushed with triumph, Alfonso declared privately: "Morocco is the keystone to the prestige of the white race and of the Christian civilization in North Africa .... Spain's war is not merely 'a little African war, as so many people seem to think .... Its consequences can be world-wide in effect...