I have been asking people on St. Vincent about E. T. Joshua after a singer asked
me. After Eric
von Schmidt died more information surfaced on the internet. I put together what
I had on my
SVG blog [http://svgb.karleklund.net] with a cross-reference to
[http://folksongstuff.blogspot.com/]

Some questions remain. What was Eric doing on St. Vincent in 1962? Where did he
get the
idea that E. T. Joshua had a yacht when he was bicycling or walking to work as
head of
government? How come Eric didn't hear that the West Indian Federation was
falling apart
when Joshua's party was the only small island party trying to hold it together
as what seemed
like the best route away from colonialism?

And generally, how could Eric have been so right about Sonny Child, so that even
his ex-wife
and other people agree; and so off base about Joshua?

Admittedly Caribbean politics is pretty strange even compared to American
politics, but
still ...