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Killed on Duty. Major Eric Knight, 45, best-selling novelist (This Above All), comic fantasist (The Flying Yorkshireman); in an air transport crash in Dutch Guiana. Born in Yorkshire, he spent most of his life in the U.S., served in World War I with Canada's crack "Princess Pat" Light Infantry Regiment, won his U.S. Army commission last July...
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...