Word: haiti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against the whole Axis: Australia, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Canada. Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Free France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Honduras, Haiti, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Poland, Panama, South Africa...
...Canal. The Caribbean countries were one war front. Eight declared war against Japan, openly denounced Germany and Italy. Costa Rica and Haiti offered air fields. Colombia promised action "to prevent by all means any menace to the security of the Panama Canal directly or indirectly from Colombia territory." Venezuela strengthened guards at petroleum fields, airports, industrial and military establishments. As Ecuador drafted a pledge of solidarity with the U.S., Guayaquil's El Telégrajo urged that "islands,* ports, coast line, aviation fields and other defense facilities be placed at the disposition of [U.S.] military forces." Panama Canal defenses...
...Australia 2, Austria 11, Belgium 1, Bermuda 2, Brazil 4, Bulgaria 1, Canada 51, Canal Zone 2, Chile 1, China 47, Colombia 6, Costa Rica 2, Cuba 4, Czechoslovakia 13, Denmark 2, Dominican Republic 1, Egypt 1, England 22, Finland 2, France 12, Germany 41, Greece 5, Guatemala 2, Haiti 1, Hawaii 21, Hungary 3, India 1, Italy 6, Jamaica 1, Japan 8, Lithuania 1, Luxembourg 1, Mexico 6, New Zealand 1, Norway 4, Panama 3, Paraguay 1, Peru 10, Philippine Islands 8, Poland 2, Puerio Rico 10, Romania 3, Russia 4, Scotland 1, South Africa 3, Spain 1, Switzerland...
...Export-Import Bank has loaned $5,000,000 to raise rubber trees in Haiti. By last week the project had a 400-acre experimental station, plans under way for planting 7,500 more. In seven to nine years the Haiti program will produce 15-20,000 tons of rubber-about 2% of U.S. requirements. Four large U.S. companies have plans under way for rubber plantations in other parts of the Western Hemisphere...
...Haiti they called on a rich cream-colored Harvard classmate of Big Boy's and saw a libidinous so-called voodoo dance. In England Longstreet talked to a nice tart and a nice Lord. In Paris there was a countess who admired gangster slang: "What do you know, you mug, about this gimmick?" In Germany he saw the old vicious guns of World War I scrapped in a field near Kiel, read in the papers of an America no American has ever seen, and talked to a brave old pastor who was ''headed as sure as Christ...