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Mario Appelius "offered" Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Bermuda to the U. S. as part of its living space in a Fascist "new world order," and all he asked as quid pro quo was that the U. S. should recognize Europe and Asia as the Lebensraum of Germany, Italy and Japan. (La Stampa of Turin, still more generous, offered the U. S. South and Central America as "living space...
...Bedded in the tourist-barren Bermudiana Hotel, the new arrivals faced a prodigious job in catching up on the volume of accumulated U. S mail. Tons of it had piled up since last August when all American Export Line ships-although not allowed to carry passengers to or from Bermuda-had been going over 400 miles out of their way to allow Bermuda stevedores to come aboard and take off mailbags. There was also a great accumulation of Clipper-borne mail, for an unusual amount of "engine trouble" and "head winds" had forced Pan American Airways to stop at Bermuda...
...Great Britain are cooperating in Britain's war effort. A destroyer swap is one thing, collaboration on South American trade missions another. But many U. S. citizens remain unaware that virtually all U. S. mail going to or coming from Europe is held for examination at Bermuda...
Press associations and other news and picture agencies have been hardest hit, for most of the material sent home this summer by U. S. correspondents in Europe has not reached its destination. Most people affected take the Bermuda mail control philosophically, being pretty well aware that Britain is not only protecting her own interests but funneling interesting information to Washington as well. Otherwise, why all the detours and head winds...
...states of the United States are represented among the new men, excepting Nevada, South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The students also come from England, France, Norway, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Canal Zone, Bermuda, and Hawaii...