Word: caledonia
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Passage to Marseille (Warner). It is just before the fall of France. A freighter, bound from New Caledonia for Marseille, is captained by a brave and gentle Frenchman (Victor Francen). One of his passengers (Sydney Greenstreet) is a professional soldier and a Fascist. An air corps officer (Claude Rains) is blithely unconcerned when he realizes that five derelicts (Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Philip Dorn, Helmut Dantine, George Tobias) whom the ship picks up are fugitives from Devil's Island. They have escaped in order to fight for France...
...Colonel indeed had reason to be proud of her overseas troops, 3,002 of whom were serving in England, North Africa, Egypt, New Caledonia, India...
This strange confession was made Dec. 10 by a U.S. Marine who had been to Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, Tulagi, Bougainville. He was Combat Correspondent Sergeant Roy Maypole, 29, onetime radio soap-opera impresario. He spoke too soon. When the Marines landed on Bougainville's Empress Augusta Bay, Sergeant Maypole heard some shooting and saw some Japs...
Said the Governor: "The colored troops are the terror of the white women in New Caledonia. Our women are afraid to go out of the house after nightfall, though recently General Lincoln [Major General Rush B. Lincoln, Commander of the Army's forces] took action and the situation is a bit better...
Until half a century ago New Caledonia was a French penal colony. Some 15,000 convicts were dumped on its remote, mountainous shore. The white population today numbers only about 17,000. Some of them have intermarried with the dark-skinned native population...