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...minor incident highlighted a serious problem last week. Liberian airfield workers just could not grasp the U.S. logic in shutting down a nice strategic base like Roberts Field, on the west bulge of Africa. They missed their regular pay. The Army had buttoned up the big Air Transport base at the end of March and left a handful of G.I. guards to hold off the exuberant jungle and its prowlers from the runways and buildings...
...Washington, the U.S. Government regretted the incident too. The Army finds the upkeep of remote Roberts Field a nuisance that it would gladly be quit of. The State Department emphatically disagrees. It believes that the airfield should be maintained, just in case. It fears that Britain or France might gladly take over the job of running the field if the U.S. pulled out. Both regard U.S. influence in Liberia with discreet but definite displeasure. The State Department still hopes to get Army funds for keeping up the field. Still greater hopes are pinned on the Navy, which is building port...
...Island, Brazil, an amazing transformation was taking place last week. Bulldozers, steam shovels, and scores of work crews were clearing stones and brush from some 650 dense acres. Before the job is finished, the section known as Praia Pernambuco, a few minutes by ferry from Santos, will have an airfield, a country club, a polo field, a beach club, a fishing club, hotels, shops, and some 500 houses, all furnished with the latest gadgets. Sao Paulo industrial interests, which are putting up millions to construct this sportsman's dream, expect it to be one of the top resort centers...
...Eshowe, the pleasant little Zululand capital some 800 miles to the northeast, native chieftains were already laying plans to have their men come in from the surrounding kraals for a vast war-dance on the airfield to welcome royalty...
Moving in on Pompet airfield at the start of 1944, we had little but curiosity toward the smoking peak which rose up 3000 feet above us and six miles away. The fact that our field was on a cinder bed and that the ancient city of Pompet next door had once been completely in-undated seemed to have no connection with the spluttering little furnace that attracted sightseers to the top of Vesuvius...