Word: guianas
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...last week, as the Martinique stalemate continued, there were solid U. S. reasons for wanting that stalemate to last as long as possible. On the eve of the Havana conference, Brazilians suddenly came out with a proposal that Brazil be given a mandate over British, French and Dutch Guiana. This looked like common sense to many Brazilians who had not considered that it would be an act of war against Britain, and it pleased some pro-fascist Brazilians who wanted just that. Next, Cuba let it be known that Cubans at the Conference would urge full independence for all colonies...
...adultery; onetime subway engineer Captain Leonard Frank Plugge, who after a nouveau-riche success with International Broadcasting Co. boasted, "I often compare myself to Clive of India-he created a great thing, so have I with my commercial broadcasting!"; and John Roland Robinson, who is chairman of a British Guiana gold-mining company and husband of Maysie Casque, an heiress with Woolworth connections...
Venezuela, represented at the conference by its Ambassador to Washington, Dr. Don Diogenes Escalante, once served as a successful proving ground for the Monroe Doctrine. The occasion: when Great Britain grew choleric over a contested boundary line on the British Guiana frontier...
...Governments of Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain and The Netherlands that the U. S. would neither recognize nor acquiesce in the transfer of any territory in the Western Hemisphere from one non-American power to another. Did this mean that U. S. Marines would occupy St. Pierre, Miquelon, French Guiana, Devil's Island? The Chicago Daily News, whose publisher, Colonel Frank Knox, was appointed Secretary of the Navy two days later, proposed "One Way to Deal with French Possessions in the Caribbean." The proposal: take them over forthwith, set up a "trustee" government in which "three or five" American...
...State Department pondered: what of Greenland, with its unexploited riches and its strategic nearness to the U. S., if Hitler wins his war and claims his western spoils? And what of the imperiled Netherlands, whose Dutch West Indies and Dutch Guiana (on the northern hump of South America) lie within 1,500 air miles of the Panama Canal? This week the State Department seriously considered a cooperative, Pan-American protectorate over these Dutch possessions, if Wilhelmina's land should fall to the Nazis...