Word: suriname
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...Real. Audrey's mother belonged to an ancient family in the Dutch nobility; their home was once the Castle of Doom, in which the defeated German Kaiser spent his declining years. Audrey's grandfather, Baron Aernoud van Heemstra, onetime governor of the Dutch colony of Surinam, was a familiar figure at the court of Queen Wilhelmina...
...sarongs. In the steaming riverbank capital, workers had poured sand into the biggest puddles in the unpaved streets. Dutch flags and orange banners hung from the front of the green-shuttered, two-story wood Parliament building. As Bernhard drove up, a band played the Dutch anthem, then broke into Surinam's own anthem, outlawed until The Hague granted the colony self-government last month...
Bernhard congratulated the 21 Parliament members (four Negro, seven East Indian, one Javanese, two white, and seven half-caste) on their new autonomy in home affairs. "Despite occasional possible political differences," replied the chairman, "Surinam remains in union with the House of Orange...
...Though Surinam's mines provide U.S. aluminum makers with two-thirds of their bauxite, they are so mechanized that fewer than 3,000 natives work in them. For the most part, Surinamers live in stagnant torpor, surrounded by jungle, mangrove swamps, umbrella ants, red howlers, web-footed dogs, and water pigs. Most of the people suffer variously from malaria, fllariasis, dysentery or leprosy...
Most notable Surinamers are the 20,000-odd Bush Negroes, whose ancestors rebelled at plantation slavery and fled inland centuries ago. Tall and agile, they range the rivers in dugout canoes and carry on indifferent agriculture in burned-over clearings. This week, having paid his respects to Paramaribo and looked over the Moengo bauxite mines, Prince Bernhard prepared for a launch trip up the muddy Surinam River to powwow with the barrel-chested Bush-Negro chieftains...