Britons and native, Trinidadians do not altogether welcome the Navy's coming. For the Navy site is where Port-of-Spain has done its week-ending. Upper-class British can find other beaches and cruising grounds. but where the Negroes and Trinidad's proud Hindu and Moslem Indians can go for their fun, they do not know.
On the Army sites, inland from Porteof-Spain, contractors and thousands of Trinidad labourers have been frantically at work. The defence project had reached a point where smoke clouded the hot sky over two great airfields to be—smoke from thousands of acres of timbered lands, where the jungle was being hacked and burned away. The War Department had clamped a rigid rule of s: crecy upon its officers in all the bases outside the U: S.. Trinidad included, But from the public, paved highways through the whole Army area., natives riding their stunted donkeys and any visiting motorist could see the outline of what is soon to be a tremendous outpost of the U.S.
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