Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arsoli, a white-haired, sturdy old peasant woman described how the message came to her: "I think perhaps one is born with a Communist spirit, just like some people are born poets. I remember the first Abyssinian war with our terrible defeat, and watching the first swallows come from Africa that year. I remember, too, worrying when I was young about people like the carpenters, who built fine furniture but slept on trestles. Communism will put an end to things like that...
While Geneva Gastons waited for facts, figures, and brass-tack concessions, delegates aired a show-me attitude toward U.S. willingness to buy from the world as much as she sold to the world. Dr. J. E. Holloway, head of the delegation from the Union of South Africa, was hopeful but skeptical. Said he: "[America] will, I hope, forgive us some little anxiety. She stands at the crossroads where her traditional antipathy to the free flow of international trade diverges from her new role as world leader. She seems to stand there in vacillating acceptance of her eminent and high destiny...
...That thing" was Helgoland-the tiny, mile-long island, 28 miles north of Germany. In 1890, when Britain traded it to the Germans for Zanzibar and a chunk of continental Africa, it was considered a fine swap. "Like getting a whole suit of clothes for a single trouser button," crowed famed African Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley. By 1914 the Kaiser had spent $80 million turning Helgoland into an "unsinkable battleship...
Presents clunked in. From "Papa": a colonelcy in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. From the Government: a raise-$24,000 to $60,000 a year. From South Africa: 400 diamonds valued at $80,000. Half a million of her sister Girl Guides contributed a penny apiece for a little surprise...
Princess Elizabeth was still in South Africa (see PEOPLE) and had not heard the song yet, but she is known to foot a nifty minuet...