Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public Mission: Barred from World War I combat duty (poor eyesight, damaged by an overdose of quinine after contracting malaria while on business in British Guiana), the up & coming lawyer wangled a captaincy in Army Intelligence. In 1919, he went to the Versailles Peace Conference as a reparations commissioner, was shocked when Woodrow Wilson's ideals foundered (as he says) "under the pressure of people who wanted to be vindictive." Never thereafter losing sight of the fundamental need for Christian tolerance and justice in international relations, Dulles in the '305 became the Presbyterians' No. 1 layman...
...West Indian islands had agreed to federate. Next spring, delegates from the legislatures of Jamaica, Trinidad, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands will meet in London to draw up a charter. By the time they have settled on terms, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands and continental British Guiana and British Honduras may be ready to join in a federation of all British possessions in the Caribbean...
...Climate of Eden (adapted by Moss Hart from Edgar Mittelholzer's novel Shadows Move Among Them) is unusual in itself and more unusual for Moss Hart. This time Hart is neither sandpapering comedy gags nor polishing dramatic commonplaces. He has been lured to the jungle of British Guiana, where an odd kind of missionary lives with his odd kind of family, and where there arrives, shell-shocked by civilization, a tense and neurotic English nephew...
Although I told you recently that TIME'S circulation office was not equipped to handle barter transactions. Dave Ballard. circulation manager for TIME-LIFE International, has just made an exception to the rule, with no questions asked. Subscriber Claude Winter wrote him from British Guiana: "You'll find enclosed ... a half-carat diamond ... to extend my subscription to TIME as far as it will go ... I hope you'll grant this request. I'm working in the hinterland of this country, with an interest in diamond mining, and I'm situated far from most civilized...
...exact coordinates of the Orinoco's source: Lat. 2° 25 min. 30 sec. North, Long. 63° 45 min. 31 sec. West. Then, in 1943, a Brazilian boundary-setting expedition claimed that it had found the source 30 miles to the west. U.S. Army flyers from British Guiana helped to confirm the location of the river's origin...