Word: archipelagos
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...manifest destiny gave the U. S. the better part of North America but President McKinley added to that gift 7,083 islands (4,642 of them nameless) in the Malay Archipelago. That was stretching Manifest Destiny to the point of manifest absurdity. In 1916 Congress declared that ''it has always been the purpose of the people of the U. S." that the islands be given their freedom as soon as it could be conveniently arranged. Soon most of the islands' 12,000,000 people began crying in their eight languages and 87 dialects that freedom would...
...Gustaf, who mortally fears Soviet Russia, was having the Communist jitters again last week. Last month the League of Nations took U. S. S. R. into its fold of respectability (TIME, Oct. 1). Straightway King Gustaf, by no complicated chain of associations, thought of the Aland Islands. The Aland Archipelago in the elbow of the Baltic Sea separating Sweden and Finland is the ticklish spot in Sweden's naval strategy. Overlooking the harbor of Stockholm, the Alands are some 300 sandy, stony little islands and one big one. They are full of Swedes but, after 600 years of being...
...Highness Padukka Mahasari Manulana Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram, 67-year-old Sultan of Sulu, ruler in the 25th generation of a dynasty which claims descent from Alexander the Great, titular head of all the Moslems of the Sulu Archipelago and British North Borneo, onetime suitor of "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, only Mohammedan autocrat under the U. S. flag, lost his seat in Philippine Senate when Governor General Frank Murphy failed to reappoint...
Pirates called it Cayo Hueso which meant bone reef. English tongues twisted it into Key West. The flat little island, six miles long at the tip of the spiny archipelago which curves southwest from the Florida peninsula, was settled in 1822, the southernmost town in the continental U. S. The Cuban revolution of 1869 sent political refugees scudding across 90 miles of open water to Key West as a safe haven. A Cuban named Eduardo Hidalgo Gato started the first modern cigar factory there five years later and the community began its climb to prosperity...
...pomp or curiosity was leading President Roosevelt thither. When President Hoover visited St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John in 1931, he shocked their inhabitants by calling their domicile an "effective poorhouse." President Roosevelt has already expressed his intention of making the three little Virgins into a New Deal archipelago...