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Negotiations continued on the hot little island of Martinique. There Rear Admiral John H. Hoover and the State Department's Samuel Reber conferred with Admiral Robert (TIME, May 18). There were other concessions which the State Department was determined to get, chiefly: supervision over some 70,000 tons of French merchant ships in the Caribbean trade; continued close supervision of the more than $200,000,000 in gold stored on the island; a U.S. observer for the radio station on Martinique...
...Vichyfrance, many U.S. citizens thought that U.S.-Vichy relations were all over but the shooting. Not so the State Department. U.S. diplomats thought up a new device to put Laval on the spot. One morning last week Rear Admiral John H. Hoover and State Department's Samuel Reber landed at Vichy's Caribbean island of Martinique, went straight to the offices of bearded Admiral Georges Robert, High Commissioner of Vichy's possessions in the area (Martinique, sister island Guadeloupe and French Guiana...
...already had such an agreement with Admiral Robert-but it was pre-Laval. Now the U.S. asked Robert to sign on the dotted line all over again. It looked simple-behind Admiral Hoover and Sam Reber stood the massed strength of five nearby U.S. naval bases, strung between Trinidad and Puerto Rico. In Washington this week French Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye said his Government (i.e., Laval) had not told him to protest...
Grenville C. Bramen, Frederic S. Dean Jr., John E. D'Errico, John W. Quinlan Jr., Harry D. Reber Jr., A. Regal, R. Scully, John S. Stillman, Andrew M. Wales, Lester H. Watson...
Delighted to see my old friend, "Yale's merry old paleobotanist, George Reber Wieland" in TIME (Aug. 30) , I would like to add a story about him which was told me several years ago by one of those present. In 1926 His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, paid a visit to New Haven, and the Yale University authorities, agog over the rare opportunity of entertaining royalty, made preparations to celebrate this happy event with the utmost dignity and propriety. There was to be an exclusive little luncheon for only the mightiest figures of academic renown...