Word: islanded
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Died. Faustin E. Wirkus, 49, Marine Corps non-com who became, by popular demand, King Faustin II (1925-29) of the 10,000 voodoo-practicing natives living on the island of La Gonâve (near Haiti), where he was stationed as a one-man police force (his subjects gravely saluted him: "Bon soi, roi!"-TIME, April 6, 1931); after long illness; in Brooklyn...
Colonel Hubbard's plan calls for two main bases, one at Winter Harbor on Melville Island, the other at Thule in Greenland. Each would have a staff of about 50 men, with a powerful radio station and an airfield. Each main base would serve as headquarters for four satellite stations as much as 500 miles away, the maximum practical distance for supply planes. One station is planned for Peary Land, the farthest-north land on earth. Arctops may even put stations on the floating arctic ice, many miles from land...
...with ITMA until July 1939. During the war, he kidded home-front nuisances by embroiling himself with the Office of Twerps and the Ministry of Irritation. On last week's program he found England at peace so unbearable that he set out for the mythical island of Tomtopia, where he intends to devote his time to making things worse...
...white man had reoccupied Java, richest and most densely populated of the East Indies, with such weak forces that he had been forced to call on armed Japs for police help. Now Dutchmen, Eurasians and Japs were being killed in skirmishes all over the island. Hardly any of it except Batavia, where the natives called a work stoppage, and Bandung, was under white control. The native leader, Soekarno, admitted that he got his arms from the Japs, with whom he collaborated during the war, but pointed to his prewar anti-Jap utterances as proof of good faith. A Mohammedan...
...Dutch stood by their 1942 pledge of self-government for the Indies in a new Netherlands Commonwealth, but they boggled at dealing with Soekarno, began shipping troops from Holland to the island battlefield. British troops, holding the imperial fort until sufficient Dutch forces arrived, were caught in the middle. They were criticized by the natives for helping the Dutch, by the Dutch for haggling over the conditions of help. At week's end the Allied commander in Java, British Major General D. C. Hawthorn, proclaimed that looting, sabotage, possessing or refusing to surrender arms by natives would be punished...