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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 April 1943Vol. XIII, No. 9

Rain And Radio In

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Tahiti

PAPEETE, March 1. rR the first time in many years, we in Tahiti are experiencing a normal rainy season—a splendid thing for our agriculturists.

Our isolation here is so complete that the arrival of a ship is an historic occasion.

We listen to the news of the battle fields: but we abruptly shut out the sounds of the political jackals who, in Congress and out, are howling at our great Commander-in-Chief, Mr. Roose velt.

Similar packs of wolves surrounded General Washington, President Lincoln and President Woodrow Wilson. As was said of President Grover Cleveland, we now may say of Mr. Roosevelt: “We love him for the enemies he has made.”