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...Kwajalein, world's largest atoll, an 80-mile string of islets, is the hub of the Marshall fortifications. It has a major airfield (on Roi Island), a seaplane anchorage, submarine facilities. In its tremendous lagoon, raiding U.S. planes (TIME, Dec. 20), have caught cruisers, carriers, seagoing merchantmen and many varieties of inter-island craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Softening the Marshalls | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...ROI PARTRIDGE Oakland, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...equal legal and civic rights. Harlem's Roi Ottley, seven years a reporter for the Amsterdam News, summed up in his recently published New World A-Coming: "In a word, the Negro wants democracy." But nowhere was the way the Negro hopes to reach his goal clearly stated. Author Ottley, who shares most Negroes' belief that leadership must come from Franklin Roosevelt, confessed to a large uncertainty about the Negro's future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Anniversary | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

After two years the police became impatient, suggested surrender. Daudet barricaded himself in L'Action offices, surrounded by hysterical young members of the Camelots du Roi (King's Henchmen). For three days the Camelots hurled jeers and inkpots at the police. Then dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe appeared in his yellow gloves, backed by several hundred gendarmes and three fire engines. Daudet yielded and was ensconced in a comfortable cell in the Prison de la Sante, where he was permitted meals prepared by Mme. Daudet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Death of a Conspiracy | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...ROI L. MORIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 13, 1942 | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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