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This distinguished new Governor did not reach Nassau last week, but he got part way to his post, landed at another British possession, Bermuda, from the U. S. ship Excalibur. A tiny admiral's barge brought the Duke & Duchess of Windsor to the landing of the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club after an eight-day voyage across the glassy Atlantic from Lisbon. A naval band struck up God Save the King. An honor guard of sailors and volunteer rifles stiffened to attention. Bermuda's Governor Major General Sir Denis Kirwan Bernard strode forward to greet his onetime King with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Governors' Ladies | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...Excalibur prepared to make an unscheduled stop Aug. 8 in Bermuda, and the Duke & Duchess said they would debark there although there were reports that Her Grace would go on to Manhattan to visit a plastic surgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mr. & Mrs. Windsor | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Frantic was the rush of U. S. summer trippers hoping to glimpse the Windsors in the Bahamas. The cruise ship Acadia cleared from Manhattan for Nassau with 40% more passengers than she ever carried before. To Bermuda went the President Roosevelt, with reporters and cameramen celebrating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mr. & Mrs. Windsor | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...long they will stay in Bermuda the Windsors said was "indefinite." The New York Sun said the $1,000,000 Astor yacht Nourmahal might take them to Nassau. The British liner Britannic took 15 more pieces of Windsor luggage to Manhattan last week, whence they will be shipped to Nassau, but the Duke was said to have had to abandon in France the bulk of his official luggage, trunkfuls of uniforms and cases of stars and orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Mr. & Mrs. Windsor | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...Navy's great base on the Pacific side of the Canal at Balboa. And while the Pacific Fleet was exhausting fuel and losing time going around the Horn-a 48-day run-he could make sea and air raids on the continental U. S., might possibly even grab Bermuda, only 700 miles from New York and Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: THE STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHY OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

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