Last week, Britain's senior ambassador, the Prince of Wales, moved on the Repulse down the long coast of Africa.
The Repulse steamed from Gambia, stopped off Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast Colony and steamed on to Nigeria (TIME, Mar. 23).
At Freetown, Sierra Leone, a dense crowd of Negroes, whose blackness was illuminated by a riot of colored dress, greeted the Prince. Many came arrayed in top hats and wedding clothes and were transported in Ford cars; big black mammies carried their toothless babes on their backs. Cries of "King Pikkin" (the King's...
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