In carribean countries, like Curaçao, riots or demonstrations have hit one West Indian land after another. “They didn’t kill us, but they stole our culture,” said leader Stanley Brown.

Tourist brochures fancifully refer to it as the “eighth continent,” a palm-fringed paradise of emerald bays, gleaming beaches and sybaritic hotels. Just beyond the thin strips of sand, however, lies a very different West Indian world, one of discontent and outright anger.

Listen to Evan X. Hyde, 22, a summa…

Curaçao welcomed Jewish refugees from Europe.

From the deck of a ship entering the harbor, Willemstadt in Curaçao looks like a toy Dutch town, its well-scrubbed houses bright in the vivid tropic sunlight. To 79 men, women and children hanging over the rails of the Spanish liner Cabo de Hornos last week, Curaçao seemed very beautiful…

Nazi ships near Curaçao are forced to anchor outside Willemstad’s drawbridged harbor, because the Dutch are afraid they might sabotage oil stored in the islands by Royal Dutch Co.

In November 1861, when the U. S. Civil War was just getting going. Captain Charles Wilkes of the Union Navy, commanding the screw sloop San Jacinto, fired a shot across the bows of the British Royal Mail packet Trent as she steamed along the Bahama Channel. The Trent hove to…

In Curaçao, a U. S. ship had been captured and the Curaçao’s Dutch Governor had been kidnaped by Rebels from Venezuela.

Just 31 years ago, while Rough Riders drilled in Texas, German bands played “Dolly Gray” and U. S. Volunteers sweated in blue flannel shirts and tubular blanket rolls, the name of the Dutch island of Curaçao appeared in bold headlines. One hot morning, the U. S. Consul at Curaçao, gazing casually…