Word: guiana
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Back last week from St. Laurent de Maroni, France's penal colony in Guiana, came Commissioner Aldin Peyron, earnest head of the Salvation Army in France. In his little Paris office he addressed reporters...
...American Airways sent a survey plane from San Juan, Porto Rico, to Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (on South America's north coast), by way of Guadeloupe (French possession), Martinique (French possession), Georgetown (British Guiana). That is the mail route which U. S. Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover last week authorized to go into operation next month...
...Garnett Day Expedition which returned in February with birds and mammals collected on Mt. Roraima in British Guiana, financed by Lee Garnett Day, importer of South American products, Manhattan...
...Guianas. Between the high Tumac-Humac mountains and the Atlantic lies Guiana, storied and fabled since first sighted by Christopher Columbus. Properly speaking there are three Guianas-British, Dutch, French. Nothing so conduces to a realization of the positively alarming size of the South American Continent as to peer at a map and reflect that deceptively small British Guiana is really larger than England, plus Scotland, plus Wales. Dutch Guiana is four times larger than the Netherlands; French Guiana is one sixth as large as France...
...significant and smiting fact about all the Guianas is their stunted and negligible development under supposedly enlightened European aegis. During the present year a shocked House of Commons has been scandalized by the discovery that forgotten British Guiana has never had a British constitution and has hastily provided one. Since the colony possesses diamond fields, these have been exploited by absentee-owned syndicates; but it is fair and just to say that Great Britain has lamentably failed to turn her famed colonizing talents to the development of British Guiana. Equally deplorable is the Dutch failure to make anything...