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...Refugees (probably in Bermuda...
...Tiny Bermuda put in a bid for a big job last week. The House of Assembly voted to investigate the possibilities of making the islands the New Geneva of the postwar world, where international conferences could be held in an atmosphere remote from national strife. Author of the suggestion was Legislative Councilor F. Goodwin Gosling, who also submitted the idea to Britain...
...Bermuda has already lost much of its peaceful quietude. U.S. soldiers and sailors stationed at a big new naval base have changed the islands' face and habits. The change was most apparent in the jeeps and trucks that chugged over roads once sacred to the horse and the bicycle. It had taken a special act of the Assembly to admit motor vehicles; Bermuda's permanent residents feared that the noisome automobile was there to stay...
...true that Lend-Lease sent goods to Bermuda against Bermuda's wishes, shipped beer and powder puffs as war supplies? Wrong, said Mr. Stettinius: the U.S. has no Lend-Lease dealings with Bermuda, never shipped a can of beer or a powder puff. (Possible origin of the rumor: to fill empty space on a Lend-Lease ship to North Africa, the Government sent some rayon stockings, sold them for cash, used the francs to buy hemp and cork...
Third and most important is the international question of the post-war status of U.S. airlines which pioneer and fly wartime routes over British soil. The U.S. is pouring millions of dollars and invaluable aviation know-how into huge air bases on British territories, such as Bermuda, the Fiji and the Solomon Islands-yet to date there is no assurance of landing rights after...