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...said he, had acquired from the British Government the right to lease naval and air bases in Newfoundland. Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Antigua, British Guiana. The Newfoundland and Bermuda bases were gifts, "gratefully received." In return for the other bases, the U. S. had given England 50 overage U. S destroyers. He called it "epochal...
That the U. S. would immediately attempt such major development of its new sites was doubtful; it is already expanding its facilities at Guantanamo, Puerto Rico and the defensive centre of all Caribbean strategy-the Panama Canal. Only three of the new bases (Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad) would lend themselves to development as even secondary fleet bases. But along its new defense line the U. S. can well place docks, tenders, other facilities for destroyers, submarines, patrol planes and protected anchorages for capital ships. President Roosevelt has in hand $200,000,000 of blank-check naval appropriations to spend...
This week those eight-and possibly more which were thought to have been transferred at sea or at Bermuda-flew the Union Jack. Where were they going? What duties would be their detail? Their specifications (see p. 19) decided the answers to these questions. In a pinch they might be called on to do almost anything, but they were built for convoy service, and for convoy they were doubtless destined. If the Battle of Britain had become a war of attrition, they might have considerable influence on the outcome. Their principal service would be to relieve better British destroyers...
...drove off with Sir Denis behind a spanking team of imported greys. Into the carriage behind mounted the Duchess, Mrs. Hastings-Brooke and the Duke's equerry. With the utmost amiability they drove down Hamilton's flag-and-flower-decked Front Street, turned into Queen Street past Bermuda's only traffic signal, through the heart of town to Government House, enthusiastically cheered by thousands...
Bermudians. Outside the "Lodge" of the Rt. Rev. Arthur Heber Browne, 73-year-old Anglican Bishop of Bermuda-who once publicly tore down a photograph of the Windsors but apologized for it-the flag of St. George flew until just before the visiting Governor arrived...