Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--Thirty-five Americans, including Maj. Eric Knight, the author, and two State Department officials were killed Jan. 15 when a big transport plane enroute from the United States to North African and Middle-Eastern destinations crashed in a remote area of Dutch Guiana, it was disclosed tonight...
This time Admiral Georges Robert had no need to consult Vichy: the goateed High Commissioner of French Caribbean possessions had broken with Pierre Laval's Nazi Government, had become his own boss in Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana...
...walked into the Munitions Building on Constitution Avenue. In his big, plain office on the second floor, next door to the Secretary of War, he began his day by looking through "the log"?a sheaf of radiograms and cables from Britain, Iceland, Newfoundland, Alaska, the Caribbean, Brazil, British Guiana, Ecuador, West Africa, North Africa, Persia, Hawaii, Australia, the Solomons, India, China?from any point (including several places now unmentionable) where U.S. troops and airmen might have had anything to report overnight. His "log" might also include pertinent communications from the British, Russians or Chinese on any of the Allied...
JERRY MASON Mackenzie, British Guiana...
Like Aranha, most Brazilians were feeling comfortably unperturbed, especially about the rest of the South American continent, excepting only Vichyfrench Guiana. All independent South American nations had accorded Brazil nonbelligerent status. Onetime Argentine President General Augustin Justo, who is pro-United Nations and who would like to be a candidate for the presidency in 1943, volunteered for the Brazilian army and was accepted as an honorary brigadier general. From Chile, whose President Juan Antonio Rios will soon visit the U.S., came hints of a break with the Axis before Rios leaves Santiago. If the Axis, as Aranha hinted, had forced...