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Last week King George VI sent his thanks for offers of help in the war to the peoples of the Falkland Islands and the Seychelles; to Grenada and the Windward Islands; to the "Council and Chiefs of the Gold Coast, Ashanti and the Northern Territory and to all members of the community"; and to "all sections of European, Asiatic and African communities of His Majesty's subjects in Nyasaland...
Last year he set up in England a Gold Coast and Ashanti trading company for direct trade with the Gold Coast, went to Manhattan to set up another trading company, and when he is done he will set up a third in Holland. Meanwhile, supervision of the cocoa burning is left to an organization with the name of the Gold Coast and Nigeria Hold-Up Committee...
Accurate Gold Coast figures have always been as hard to find as Dr. Livingstone. How much cocoa was being burned, no one knew, not even Mr. Winfried Musa Tete-Ansa, managing director of the Gold Coast and Ashanti Farmers Union, who last week was in Manhattan and available for questioning. Guesses ran from 500 tons to 5,000. Mr. Tete-Ansa himself has advised his farmers to burn "at least 40,000 tons." Last week the price was down to 6? a pound. Whether or not great quantities had been burned since October, only 44,000 tons of Gold Coast...
...typical brass hat (staff officer) was Brig.-General Frank Percy Crozier, 119th Infantry Brigade, British Expeditionary Force. Professional soldier descended from a long line of professional soldiers, he fought in South Africa, Ashanti, North Nigeria, Zululand, then retired from the army. In 1914 he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers with the rank of Captain. During the next five years he won the D.S.O., C.M.G., C.B., Croix de Guerre with palm, was mentioned seven times in despatches, left the War a Brigadier. A capable officer, a soldier who knew his trade, General Crozier has no illusions about war, tells his trade...
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell is a man of 69, with upright carriage and snapping eye, such as become a veteran who has campaigned in Zululand, Ashanti, Matabeleland, at Mafeking, in the Transvaal. King Edward dubbed him Knight, King George dubbed him Baronet, 600,000 American boys call him "Chief Scout of the World," and last week at the 16th annual convention of the Boy Scouts of America, Dan Beard, chief U. S. scout, presented him with a silver buffalo and called him "our contemporaneous ancestor." (Sir Robert protested: "That suggests monkeys...