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...word of a drastic administrative reform inaugurated by Governor Bouge. Most of French Guiana is unexplored. Preliminary surveys show traces of gold, silver, lead, copper. There are phosphate deposits and valuable rosewood forests. But French Guiana, as all the world knows, is also France's penal colony. Young Frenchmen wall not go there to colonize. Therefore, by order of the French Government, it has been decreed that in future only a coastal belt 25 miles deep is to be known as Guiana. The rest of the territory is to be a separate colony, separately administered by Governor Bouge...
...rest of Premier Laval's City Hall speech was his U. S. keynote, his promise to listening Frenchmen that he would try to get what they want: "Our only desire is peace. But we set great store by our Security...
Gold Hoarders. Nervous Poles, who have hoarded U. S. banknotes, recently exchanged them by the million in unreasoning panic for Polish banknotes. Not exactly pleased with themselves, the Poles next took a tip from Frenchmen, began buying U. S. gold pieces. Last week this trend made Polish bankers simply wild...
...Frenchmen and the Yankees...
...kept up easy-running accompaniments. The Vivaldi-Bach Concerto and a Mozart Sonata made the bulk of their program, but the U. S. has been used to hearing its own Maier & Pattison team (now disbanded- TIME, March 2), play the Great Ones with far nicer balance and finesse. The Frenchmen scored with their jazz, the sort of thing which made Le Boeuf s reputation and has since stood transplanting into a thousand and more concerts. There was an arrangement of Braham's "Limehouse Blues," given a dozen sombre shades by Doucet's insinuating bass, one of Gershwin...