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Appointed last week as new Governor and Commander in Chief of Bermuda was David George Brownlow Cecil, Lord Burghley. His chief duty: to play host to Bermuda's distinguished visitors...
...such islands and such territories as we deem necessary to our safety. . . . We must go far afield. Dakar and Casablanca . . . must be ours in permanence. . . . We must have our own permanent naval and air bases in Iceland and Greenland. We must maintain, continue, perfect and enlarge our base on Bermuda. . . . We must make equitable arrangement if we can for the possession of the islands of the Caribbean...
...that he was "too old and too busy to continue my career as a hurdler." In 1935 he was re-elected to Parliament, became a Baldwin 30 and Chamberlain man. In 1938, supporting Munich, he said: Britain should be "big enough to be above a mud-slinging match." In Bermuda nighttime Hamilton will be a sight for Lord Burghley to see. Its blacked-out, coral streets are packed with residents, visitors, soldiers. & sailors on shore leave. There is practically no civilian automobile traffic, and crowds too big for the sidewalks mill into the streets. Hotspots serve weak drinks at stiff...
...Governor, Lord Burghley will have to do some social thinking for Bermuda's peace: when the war ends and the garrisons are reduced, Bermuda's golden stream will dry up. Negro workers now making about $3 a day will worry about unemployment. Bermuda's ruling merchants are already planning cushioning measures to carry them from wartime boom to peacetime security. There is serious talk of changing Bermuda from a millionaires' retreat to a popular, popular-priced Atlantic resort for the masses...
...Bermuda cure is the gentle placing of the palm of the hand or the foot upon the Gargantua and sweeping up the resultant mess...