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Thus last week spoke Canada's most disgruntled and disillusioned war bride, 40-year-old Mrs. Hermine Dent, British Guiana-born wife of a Canadian Army sergeant. She had been ready to make concessions, she said at her Timmons, Ont. home. She had tolerated: 1) filthy towns, 2) unsociable people, 3) unsavory food, 4) dreary houses. But she drew the line at the cold. Now she was quitting Canada and Husband Dent to go back to balmy Guiana. Asked a newsman: "Don't you like anything about Canada?" Said Mrs. Dent...
...design a 7,780-ton, all-aluminum vessel; Manhattan's Gibbs & Cox, Inc., who designed the Liberty ships, will draw plans for a 10,280 tonner. Alcoa will build the one it likes, use it to haul bauxite from its mines in Moengo and Paranam, Dutch Guiana, to the U.S. for processing. But the primary purpose is to open up a vast new market for aluminum. Alcoa already has its foot in this door...
...concert this week in Berlin, Berlin's famed 65-year-old Philharmonic Orchestra was led by a U.S. war correspondent in battledress. Besides being a war correspondent, the guest conductor was a Negro, born in British Guiana. The 2,000 Berliners and the 500 Allied soldiers in the audience found it quite an experience. They applauded warmly when the conductor led the orchestra through Weber's familiar Oberon and Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. They broke into cheers, and called him back five times, when he gave them Berlin's first hearing of fellow-Negro William...
...Bases Sirs: Surely you are not in error, but it is my studied belief that your statement (TIME, May 8) "Bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, British Guiana, etc. . . . were leased to the U.S. . . ." is wrong. The bases in New foundland and Bermuda were given to the U.S., those in the other W.I. islands were leased! Right or wrong...
...Bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, British Guiana, the Bahamas, St. Lucia, Jamaica, Antigua were released to the U.S. in 1940, technically in return for 50 overage destroyers. Interpreted literally, the leases give the U.S. possession but not sovereignty for 99 years. British sentiments apply equally to U.S. war installations in the Middle East, India, the Pacific, Africa...