Word: caribbean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...April 23, Carrier Rowan landed in Kingston, Jamaica, sailed Cuba-ward that night on a dirty native fishing boat under the eyes of the Spanish patrol which was scouring the Caribbean. Flat on his back against a gunwale, Carrier Rowan heard a Spaniard swagger alongside shouting queries; heard his pilot's lazy answer, the Spaniard's satisfied grunt...
...against a repetition of the 1927 Geneva Conference fiasco. Meanwhile disarmament sentiment was growing in Britain. Impulsive was the suggestion of Charles Kingsley Webster, professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Wartime member of the British General Staff, that Britain should abandon her naval bases in the Caribbean as a gesture of international goodwill. For home consumption he pointed out that the West Indian stations were expensive and of small value, and added...
...could produce an immediate effect on American opinion if we made clear, as we might have done long ago, that we have abandoned our naval bases in the Caribbean. In policy we have long recognized that the United States has a paramount interest there and it is time we demonstrated clearly that our strategy recognizes that fact...
...expected by nervous mamas at U. S. bathing beaches, had been found. The Spanish gunboats coaled and departed to face U. S. Admiral Schley. U. S. citizens looked for Curaçao in their atlases, found it off the coast of Venezuela, a tiny button in the bottom of the Caribbean...
Last week U. S. householders rethumbed their atlases, relocated the bottom button of the Caribbean. In Willemstad Harbor, Curaçao, a U. S. ship had been captured, Curacao's Dutch Governor had been kidnaped...