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...intention to change existing relations with the British Commonwealth except in so far as use is made of the same machinery utilized by Canada, New Zealand and Australia. . . . I regret our relations are no better than they were with Britain. The British Government still exacts payments through penal tariffs of a sum of money we say is not due. We do not propose to pay it. The Irish people have not surrendered, and are not going to surrender. . . . However, I am certain that this Constitution will not injure the British people but will make it possible for both peoples amicably...
Lisbon tailors promptly patterned a natty uniform for the Legionaries, and the Government announced, "Anyone not a Legionary wearing this garb will be subject to penal prosecution." Any stalwart Portuguese from 18 to 50 could apply for membership last week, but Legion organizers said that all candidates will be carefully scrutinized, required to take this oath: "I will defend my country and its social order and give my life and property willingly for its Corporative State. I will repudiate and tight Communist doctrines...
...Immediately Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar opened fire on the ships with powerful Lisbon fortress batteries, disabled and towed them ashore where it will not be difficult to patch them up. Oliveira Salazar soldiers marched the mutinous sailors to jail whence they expected to be sent to the Portuguese penal colony in the tropics. In an adroit proclamation the Portuguese Government intimated that it had known beforehand of the coming mutiny and, instead of nipping it, had deliberately permitted the sailors to commit a crime and receive a punishment which Dictator Oliveira Salazar trusted last week will impress other Portuguese...
...bald Marc Rucart, onetime journalist, now Minister of Justice in the Blum Cabinet, had an important announcement for humanitarians throughout the world last week. After months of private discussion the new Left Wing French Cabinet was about to correct a longstanding evil. The penal colony in French Guiana, that "abscess on the body colonial," will progressively be abolished. Within a few months, a mixed commission from the Ministries of Colonies and Justice will be sent to Guiana to recommend the details. Until the present Paris scheme matures, no more convicts will be sent out to rot in the tropics...
French Guiana is one of the oldest French possessions. Settled in 1626, it has been a French penal colony almost continuously since 1852. Half the present population (10,700) of Cayenne, capital of French Guiana, are convicts. Many thousands merely live in unbarred exile. Only a handful of the most desperate prisoners are actually confined on Devil's Island, one of the three "Safety Islands" off the Guiana Coast. Devil's Island's fame originated largely from the fact that it was there that Capt. Alfred Dreyfus was imprisoned for four and one-half years. Since...