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...extended Pan Am's present route to London, via Bermuda, through Europe and the Near East to Calcutta. American Export, which now flies to Foynes, Ireland, and Lisbon, was given two north Atlantic routes and will fly all the way to Moscow. T.W.A. was also given two routes, one via Newfoundland and Foynes to Bombay, the other via Lisbon and Rome to Cairo...
...last week for more than Tokyo. While the air attack on the Empire's capital was going on, the impatient Americans in Luzon were rushing back onto Bataan and Corregidor. Other Americans swarmed ashore on Iwo Jima-an island as menacingly close to Japan's heart as Bermuda is to New York. The war-worn Chinese rallied to take back a section of the hard-won Canton-Hankow railway line. A jungle-trekking British force popped up to menace the conquered oil-field district of Burma. There were more fires than fire brigades, around the Empire...
Holder of the Purple Heart and Silver Star for service in World War I, Compton had joined the Seabees in September 1942, became a chief electrician's mate. In Bermuda, on his first assignment, he came under command of an ensign with whom he did not get along. Complained Compton: "He was an overbearing kid of about 26 or 27, and you know it's pretty hard on older men who have been in their trade 15 or 20 years to have a youngster telling them what's what...
...have just read with interest your account of the "Brotherly Greed" of Senators Reynolds, McKellar and Chandler (TIME, Aug. 28), who happily propose that the U.S. take permanent possession of Bermuda, Trinidad, Jamaica, the Bahamas and other British territory (not to mention numerous possessions of France, Holland, Russia, Mexico, Ecuador...
...President, I go further than Bermuda. I think we ought to take Bimini and Nassau, only about 50 miles off the coast of Florida. ... We should not only take the islands which belong to the British there, but we should discuss the appraised value of those islands and deduct their value from what Great Britain owes us as a result of World War I and World...