Word: congo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Imported from Belgian Congo, Jiggs was brought up by Mrs. Jacqueline Gentry to eat at the table with the family, to use the bathroom, to ride in an auto, to play with the children next door. One thing he refused to do, however: sleep in a blanketed bed. One night last fortnight he slept outdoors in a storm, three days later died of pneumonia. Paramount planned (but failed) to send a delegation of famed actors to watch Jiggs buried in his silk-lined coffin. A Christian Science funeral service was read at his grave...
...years ago, under the auspices of the Belgian Government, a tall, rawboned cinema director, Armand Denis (Goona-Goona), and his wife, Leila Roosevelt, undertook a $150,000 expedition to the Belgian Congo. Purposes: to make a motion picture survey of certain parts of the country for Belgian Congo's National Park Institute; to take sound film material suitable for use in an African movie. Explorer Denis, his wife, cameramen, and Pooka, a cat (which survived sand storms and a fight with a leopard, only to be run over later on a quiet New England country road) pushed their...
...Partners." Leaks disclosed that Halifax reported the Nazis demanding in the way of colonies that Britain and France yield "only" Togoland and the Cameroons-these being nearly worthless African territories-but that Belgium and Portugal should be forced to yield their long held rich Congo and Angola to a chartered company in which they would be "partners" with Germany, which would own the controlling interest. Hitler, in return for the above concessions, would bind Germany never to attempt to repossess the more valuable once-German colonies now held as mandates by the United Kingdom, France, the Dominions, and Japan...
...Rightist Spain and her German ally, and the Dictator showed every sign of feeling that he can sit tight on the question of Angola. No dictator is King Leopold of the Belgians. Announced his Foreign Minister Spaak: "Should the question arise, Belgium is prepared to defend the colony (Belgian Congo) with all the means within our power. From London we learn that the British viewpoint would never admit an accord detrimental to other countries...
There were urgent reasons touching the Belgian Congo sufficient to bring His Majesty to England (see p. 19). Both the King and Prince Charles studied at Eton, have many English friends. Traditional practice in impending royal engagements is for all concerned to issue lying official denials right up to the last moment...