Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dutch Empire, Quiet, matronly Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands refuses to assume the style of "Empress," but she has, in Sumatra, Java and Borneo an empire 31 times as large as her tiny kingdom, one-fourth the size of India and containing 40,892,000 subjects of her modest crown...
...island of Bali, just east of Java, due south of Borneo, is owned by Holland but enjoys a rare domestic independence. The Dutch policy is Bali for the Balinese. With an extremely fertile soil, Bali raises and exports pigs, cattle, copra, coffee. Says Author Powell: the Balinese are furthermore the most artistic race in the world...
...ketch with an engine so faulty that no one could sleep below on account of the fumes. Lashed to the hatch, they slept on deck through tropic storms. They say they spent one of the happiest times of their lives floating on a raft down a river in Borneo...
...Secretary of State Stimson and Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.. signed an official document which added seven specks in the Sulu Sea to the U. S. domain. The specks were the Turtle Islands, southwest of the Philippines and some 20 miles off the North Borneo coast. The U. S. and Great Britain had at last agreed upon a boundary line between their possessions. Under the four-power Pacific Treaty of 1921, the U. S. is prohibited from using its new miniature archipelago as a naval base...
Average size of the Turtle Islands is 1 mi. by ¼ mi. Total population: 220. Products: a few thousand dollars worth of turtle eggs and copra yearly. The British North Borneo Co. will continue to administer Turtle Island affairs until the U. S. sends out a spick-and-span new government...