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...five years ago, all six games played by the Crimson were with the British Empire. The Princeton game at Princeton had to be called off because of transportation difficulties, and with the war, there was no chance of even considering the pro-war Harvard-Yale Princeton rugby matches of Bermuda, which were played annually at spring vacation time until...
...Bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, British Guiana, the Bahamas, St. Lucia, Jamaica, Antigua were released to the U.S. in 1940, technically in return for 50 overage destroyers. Interpreted literally, the leases give the U.S. possession but not sovereignty for 99 years. British sentiments apply equally to U.S. war installations in the Middle East, India, the Pacific, Africa...
...Bermuda, in the sunny days before the war, a motorcar was a monstrosity. The soothing clop-clop of patient horses on the bright, white coral roads and the occasional cling of a cyclist's bell took the place of whining tires and peremptory blares. Black coachmen were unfailingly polite and the tranquil roads were a pleasure to walk. Five years ago a Governor General resigned in a huff because the Colonial Assembly would not let him have a car for personal use. Exceptions to the rigid ban: fire engines, ambulances, garbage trucks...
...trucks and waddling busses, a ceaseless need for speed. But people told each other the hubbub was just a part of war. Then last week, the Assembly voted 2-to-1 to lift the ban on private cars, unanimously to permit taxicabs and motorcycles. Barring a legislative afterthought. Bermuda's restful tempo was gone for good...
...conceals his compass, steers not for Bermuda but for a German supply ship. And while everyone sleeps, he pushes overboard the man who catches him drinking from a concealed bottle of water. His apparently superhuman strength comes from this water and from energy tablets. In a burst of horror and rage his boatmates force him overboard, beat him under water. Rittenhouse delivers the coup de gráce-with the shoe from the amputated foot of the man the German saved...