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...Island off the east end of Nova Scotia. From there French fishermen still went out to the Grand Banks and there they built a mighty fortress at Louisburg. From Nantasket, Mass, in 1746 set forth 4,000 colonists under Lieut. General William Pepperell to reduce this French threat to Anglo-Saxon supremacy in the northeast. It fell in a few weeks, was returned to France when King George's War (a Western Hemisphere overflow of Europe's War of the Austrian Succession) was settled. Ten years later Lord Jeffrey Amherst (hero of a famed college song) took...
Nazi Jew-haters have long studied the globe, picking out other peoples' colonies as a home for Europe's Jews. Madagascar stands high on the list. Australia, its Anglo-Saxon population moved to Canada and its great central plain irrigated with Jewish millions, has been considered. Even Alaska has been mentioned as the new Jerusalem. Hinting at tough measures to come, the Himmler organ warned: "The European Jewish question is not to be solved through homeopathic remedies and not by . . . humane directions...
Italy's object in the far-flung bush battles of the war in East Africa is to bite off pieces of France's colonies in the north, gain control of Egypt and the Suez, and bite into Great Britain's holdings in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, British Somaliland, Kenya Colony...
More reservedly enthusiastic were the sun-&-fun-loving income-tax-avoiding members of Nassau's Anglo-American cafe society. As spokesman of the colony's inner circle, Jane, Lady Williams-Taylor, grandmother of onetime Glamor Girl No. 1, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, decided the Duchess "will be received," primly explained that "she is the wife of the king's representative...
Last week Argentina shifted uncomfortably on the fence, nervously tried to guess the winner in the Anglo-German struggle. With a foreign-trade policy based on reciprocity, Argentina has consistently attempted to buy from its best customer. In the past Argentina has found an excellent complement to its own economy in that of Great Britain, has sent beef, wheat and maize to the British Isles in return for manufactured goods...