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Franklin Roosevelt was feeling no pain this week. He had laid his plans, and his plans seemed to be working out. He had seized a country-Dutch Guiana (Surinam). He had temporarily stalemated the Japanese, at a time when every day's delay before the Japs went to war constituted a real victory for the U.S. American tanks and planes were helping the British shag the life out of the Axis troops in North Africa. The first U.S. ships bound direct-to-England, direct-to-Russia were loading cargo and guns to win the Battle of the Atlantic. Traffic...
...vulnerable spot before the enemy seized it as Hitler himself could have planned. But unlike Hitler's aggressions it was made with the full consent of the other parties concerned: Brazil, the British, The Netherlands Government. The White House is sued a brief statement: The bauxite mines in Surinam furnish about 60% of the metal vital to U.S. aluminum manufacture, and aluminum is vital to all nations fighting the Axis. To protect the safety of this bauxite source, the U.S., by agreement with interested nations, and after advising all other Latin American nations, will put in a small force...
...Surinam was once thought to be worth more than Manhattan. The Dutch traded the colony of New Amsterdam to the British in 1667, got Surinam in return, and thought that they had the best of the bargain...
...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...
Stranded in New York, Mobile, New Orleans, Norfolk, Tacoma, were freighters and passenger ships. Chiefly affected were ten vessels of the Alcoa Line, which carry supplies to defense bases in the West Indies, bring back bauxite from Surinam (Dutch Guiana). Bauxite is the raw material of aluminum, which is the most publicized of defense-program shortages...