Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state, following a description of the well-being of President Roosevelt and as though it were a concomitant thereof, the following: ". . . He had seized a country-Dutch Guiana (Surinam...
...possible precedent in war reporting was set last week when Army sent its own press chief, Lieut. Colonel Stanley J. Grogan, to cover U.S. occupation of Dutch Guiana, to which no other reporters were invited...
...much like their savage forefathers, but still speak a kind of stubborn English.* Surinam produced 615,434 tons of bauxite in 1940, exported all of it to the U.S. The chief bauxite mine is at Moengo, up the narrow Cottica River close to the boundary of Dutch and French Guiana...
...Japan could still think of a peaceful Pacific.* Tension was increased when the U.S. Consulate at Saigon, in Japan-dominated Indo-China, was bombed. As U.S.Japanese talks made no progress, Secretary Hull held two conferences with the representatives of Australia, Britain, China, The Netherlands. The U.S. occupation of Dutch Guiana (see p. 13) was a powerful demonstration of U.S.-Dutch collaboration, a warning that there would be more collaboration if Japan should move against the Dutch East Indies...
...eleven months -enough, it was hoped, to keep him friendly; not enough to make much difference if a more pro-Axis general replaced him. The Free French, who now control twelve colonies, went unrecognized, got no direct Lend-Lease aid (except via the British). Strategically vital Martinique, French Guiana, Dakar and the other French possessions were left alone...