Word: togolands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curious about international white slave traffic, Author Londres once lived with the traffickers, about whom he wrote The Road to Buenos Aires. His latest excursion-to Africa, through French Sudan, the High Volta, the Ivory Coast, Togoland, Dahomey, the Congo-disclosed a black slave traffic. The native African, says he, is a "banana engine" making the roads of a continent at the expense of his life. He may work a month on banana fuel, then find himself owing eleven francs because of huge taxes. Other Londres observations: 1) in French Africa a white man who strikes a black gets fined...
Though having yearly quotas of 100 each, the following regions seldom send immigrants to the U. S.: Ethiopia, Muscat, Nepal, British Togoland, French Togoland, French Cameroon, Tanganyika, Nauru, New Guinea...
...other regions although having quotas of 100 each, send no immigrants to the U. S.: French Cameroon, Ethiopia, Muscat, Nepal, Tanganyika, British Togoland, French Togoland, Nauru, New Guinea...
...German colonies were distributed in 1919 as follows: German East Africa (Britain); German South West Africa (Britain); Cameroon (Britain and France); Togoland (Britain and France); German New Guinea? comprising Kaiser Wilhelm's land, Bismarck Archipelago, German Solomon Islands, Nauru ?(Britain); Marianne Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Island, Pelew Island (Japan). All these colonies are mandated by the League of Nations...
...Ratified treaties with France and Belgium regarding the rights of Americans in the former German colonies of East Africa, Cameroon and Togoland, now under mandate. ¶ Discussed and rediscussed the oil scandal...