Word: curacao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Netherlands Beyond the Seas includes Curacao, in the Caribbean; Surinam (formerly Dutch Guiana), in South America, and most important of all, the archipelago officially called The Netherlands Indies, known to the native inhabitants as Indonesia, called by old mariners simply The Indies. These islands, home of orangutans, Komodo dragons, hornbills and headhunters, producer of pearls, spices, rare woods, stretches 1,300 miles from North to South, 3,000 from East to West and are inhabited by 60,000,000 brown-bodied souls, not counting some 1,500,000 Asiatics and Europeans. Queen Wilhelmina has never visited her Eastern Empire (although...
...Netherlands Government recently notified the U. S. Post Office Department that Dutch Guiana would hereafter be called only Surinam. Other changes: Dutch East Indies to Netherlands Indies, the Dutch West Indies to Curacao. The word "Dutch" has long been taboo in The Netherlands...