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...Both the Duchess and I love to travel," the Duke said, and added: "Nearly five years in Nassau is the longest time I have spent in one place since my adolescence, and the longest I hope to spend in any place in the future. . . . We have no immediate plan beyond going to New York and probably to my ranch in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: Abdication from Elba | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...Nassau's palm-fringed Government House a barrage of phone calls and cables descended. For half a day the Duke of Windsor was not at home to any queries. Then he donned a dapper, grey check suit, pinned a red carnation in his lapel, and with his well-dressed Duchess at his side, gallantly went forth to meet the press and explain his second abdication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: Abdication from Elba | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...been a long time. When they first came, there had been that embarrassing scene at the Emerald Beach Club when Nassau high society had formally welcomed the Duke and snubbed his Duchess. The colonials had to be more British than the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: Abdication from Elba | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

...President, I go further than Bermuda. I think we ought to take Bimini and Nassau, only about 50 miles off the coast of Florida. ... We should not only take the islands which belong to the British there, but we should discuss the appraised value of those islands and deduct their value from what Great Britain owes us as a result of World War I and World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Brotherly Greed | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Nancy Oakes de Marigny, high-styled young daughter of the mysteriously slain Sir Harry Oakes, popped up in Miami and did some explaining: 1) she needs an operation on her mouth, is going back to Nassau to sell her furniture because the Bahamas forbid her to take her inheritance out of the country; 2) playful Husband "Freddie," deported to Havana after the Oakes trial, is not working because Cuba's labor laws governing aliens forbid him to; 3) Freddie "is restless with nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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