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...Brazil's famed Taves family). In addition his year-old British West Indian Airways has relieved the hard-pressed West Indies by carrying an average load of 1,700 passengers, 15,000 Ib. of express, 2,300 Ib. of mail a month out of Port of Spain, Barbados, Tobago...
From Jamaica the Commission sailed eastward along the crescent of islands that forms the Leeward and Windward groups, down through Barbados (whose 1,163 people to the square mile make up the densest agricultural population in the Western Hemisphere) to Tobago and Trinidad (which imports four-fifths of its food). Everywhere the investigators found squalor, economic decay, unrest. Ruled by professional colonial administrators, with a hierarchy of whites and an exploited mass of blacks, Chinese and East Indian coolies, the West Indies were the victims of unrepresentative government, of the low exchange value of such primary products as sugar, cocoa...
With that in mind the following solution is suggested: Let Great Britain grant the United States title to Jamaica, British Honduras, Bermuda, The Bahamas, British Guiana, the Falkland Islands, Trinidad, Dominica, Santa Lucia, Tobago, British Leeward Islands, British Windward Islands and all other British possessions in the Western Hemisphere including all Pacific Islands but excluding the Dominion of Canada in complete fulfillment of her financial obligations...
When Sir Murchison had departed, within a few minutes President Roosevelt followed him, went ashore in the local steamer Tobago, drove out to Government House. There after a few swizzles of excellent Trinidad rum, they shook their heads in private over Mrs. Simpson's triumph, ate a highly seasoned luncheon, motored for 25 miles through the countryside before the Indianapolis was ready to sail...
...Illustrations, linoleum cuts by Leon Underwood, define and accentuate the grand flurry of action that the prose describes. Well imagined, brilliantly effected, they make it impossible to think of John Paul Jones without suddenly seeing him, fighting with a sailor at the Island of Tobago, firing a derisive musket in reply to a broadside, standing, like a lord, at the door of a ballroom where several ladies dance and one is bowing...