Word: surinam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hiking distance of the muddy confluence of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Officers who had never been off the pavements set up camps on atolls in the Pacific or led men through the drifting fogs of the Aleutians to new homes that must be built. In the miasmas of Surinam and on the steamy flats of Africa, U.S. soldiers broiled at their work. Their lives and their combat effectiveness hung on the S.O.S. And the work of the S.O.S. hung on a myriad details, some so small that an office boy could handle them...
...American troops occupied Surinam...
...state, following a description of the well-being of President Roosevelt and as though it were a concomitant thereof, the following: ". . . He had seized a country-Dutch Guiana (Surinam...
...respectfully call to your attention that the sending of American troops to Surinam came about as the result of friendly negotiations between The Netherlands Government and the United States; that the sovereignty of the Kingdom of The Netherlands over Surinam never was and is not now questioned; that the agreement . . . is merely for the period of the emergency; that the American troops are to be withdrawn the moment hostilities are ended...
...dream. Below the 1,000 Dutch is a weird blend of Javanese, British Indian, Chinese, aboriginal Indian and Bush Negro. The Negroes are descendants of 17th-Century imported African slaves, who live and dress much like their savage forefathers, but still speak a kind of stubborn English.* Surinam produced 615,434 tons of bauxite in 1940, exported all of it to the U.S. The chief bauxite mine is at Moengo, up the narrow Cottica River close to the boundary of Dutch and French Guiana...