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Mr. Winston Churchill
September 20, 1940.
THE DUKE OF
proportion of the inhabitants, thus making Americans cousins in a loft-handed sort of way.
H been to appoint His of need. time, this became IS Majesty the King has afforded him shelter in his hour
From the sea, the low island, of Nassau, whose surface never Royal Highness, the Duke of the harbour of Nassau, the pre-rises much over a hundred feet, Windsor, to be Governor and sent capital of the archipelago looks like a green strip of sea Commander in Chief of the and the seat of the Royal weed floating in a deep blue sea, Bahama Islands," reads the of Governor.
outlined by a lacy collar of foam The name of the island was where an angry surf is always ficial announcement.
later changed to New Pro- breaking.
The undergrowth along shore This appointment to one of
vidence, to distinguish it from the lesser governorships under the New England Colony city. seems a trifle scrubby after
other tropical seascapes, prob patronage of the Crown involves Spain resented this invasion of ably owing to the thin coat of no loss of prestige for the territory that she had not soil covering the windswept former King of England, for thought worth, occupying. She backbone of the island.. this seemingly insignificant post has become one of the most im- portant in the Empire, in the shadow of present-day British events and eventualities.
This is specifically true in the case of the Duke of Windsor who, for a generation at least, has been Britain's Number One liaison figure. As the Prince of Wales during the First World War and after, Edward won the popular affection of many Americans. The Duke of Wind sor is a "good mixer," perhaps the best that England ever had and the friendliness of United States must be kept in n fuld and fluent condition.
Furthermore, the appointment of the Duke of Windsor as a Colonial Governor, marks begin- ning of a $280,000,000 British colonial development and wel. fare programme, decided upon Just before the outbreak of the
present war.
the
The arrival of the Duke and Duchess in Nassau will be the first visit in the Western Hemis phere since the King abdicated. The reciprocal feeling between America and England is further-
Mi Churchill has Hved an adven-ed by the near proximity of the
Tuachus life
WAT corresponderst, seldre:, student of military history.
Bahamas.
It is just a ferry Twice a day a
experienced parliamentaring. Cabinet| trip overnight, mirsister, and man of letters. •He belongs to a fairly old family Ilis great ancestor, Jotus Churchill, wax Nassau, making the trip in one of England's most forous soldiers
plane flies between Miami and
in the time of the late Stewarts, and, couple of hours.
he himself is
man of the hour, with a mighty re-
now undoubtedly the
sponsibility resting on his shoulders
A few years ng he wrote a book į
The Duke of Windsor will
govern an enormous area, fur
under the title of "Ch
of Cirent Contem. the Bahamas comprise 3,000 poraries," in which he sketched the islands, islets and cays, stretch-
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characters rat twenty butstanding bove berg Gamalten Nasares i publ hire of Eurup,
who ing out for some 700 miles along
Florida
Spanish the the
shore. owners by discovery made no use of the islands,
The
praisal +af ስኬቱ contemporaries, Mumumating as it in, brings to ligh with eveD greater brillance the charact of M Curent) hunseit
Ponce de Leon began That M Churchill Ja 13 natural romantic tradition of the Ba- gers for friendship and a spontane - uus readiness to acknowledge
what hamas that the Windsors are
he owes to his friends is clearly seen continuing, by twice traversing
In these sketches, and there is per- haps no better way of bringing out
This feature of bars character than bay quoting a few reacts from bas
Comments usin the
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pea Trails he has drawn
in tus WWW.
រង bernued Shaw "saint, sage, and clown," und "the greatest Aving master of letters in
them in search of the Fountain of Youth, just after his dis- Some 170 covery of Florida. years elapsed before a settle- meni was made by Europeans.
Another Englishman, Captain
the English-speaking world." He is Sayles, in 1667, sought shelter
the larger islands. He called the island, Providence, for it
of opinion that Joseph Chamberlain "revived in the Tary party the in- in a beautiful harbour of one of spiration of Disraeli, and made the world-spread peoples of the British Empire realize that they were one, and that their future lay in aeting on this knowledge of Sir Juhn French he nays that "the advance of the British Army neruss the Marne the under French's orders decided immense battle which saved Puris." Не
be
af "one pronounces this to the Kreatest mallory events in all history." and says that Sir John Is entitled to his share of the glory. John Morley was one of his older
a
master
WINDSOR'S
descended on New Providence and alew every inhabitant.
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During the following 50 years, the Bahamas served only as a hideout for pirates and bucca- neers. They began by assault ing the Spanish galleons loaded with gold and silver filched from the American aborigines.
The treasure ships came directly from the Spanish Main and Panama, and, like modern shipping, had to pass somewhere among the hundreds of Bahama Islands.
While the Bahamas have not
known actual warfare, they have than once benefited by
more
can
This main thoroughfare leads straight through the Capital elty. It is captivating, at least to those who like tinted engravings" of a village. street way down East," for example.
There are rambling stores. with antiquated, show-windows. piled with curious assortments. of all they carry, with antique clerks when they are not 'coloured--wearing choker col- lars, showing their Adam's apple, some with mutton chop whiskers.
Boney nags hitched to carryalls, buggles and buckboards with an as- sortment of Fords of various vintages sland, along the sidelines. Negroes. lounge at every corner. And there are many shops that are strictly the outgrowth of tourist traffic. True, nt either end of this somnolent colonial setting, they might have seen from the sea two great hotals, one ancient
of days, the other the last word in swank,
The procession moves on upp
There will be nothing to re- mind the new Governor of the hilla rising high above the Riviera and the stony coasts of Spain and Portugual where thay George Street-named after one of have sojourned so long. Wild Edward's illustrious ancestors-10 pecans, century plants, dusty the top of Mount Fitzwilliam, where flame trees with brown pods stands Government House.
Sur- handing almost within reach, rounded by its 18-acre park, it is a and dwarf green bay trees bor- striking edifice. der the roadway on the drive into the town.
Gimerack villas of black na- tives with tanks on the roofs to
Here again, is the ubiquitous touch of Amerien, in the form of a statue modelled according to instructions from Washington Irving. A bucca- neer wearing a slouch hat at a rakish
NEW POST
entch the precious rainwater, will be decorated with bunting
to
welcome the Duke and Duchess.
of Nassau will feebly remind him of The old forts just outside the elty the incidents of strife. Ameri- the outworks of the Empire. They
from Loyalista fled
the enter Nanu viu a meandering street, past quaint four-square houses of Southern Colonies when the white all with elaborate green shut- Declaration of Independence was ters and copses of Bougainvillis and made. They brought with them hedges of hibiscus. At Bay Street, their retinuca of slaves and to- gether may be said to represent the ancestry of a considerable Üläck people
FUNNY SIDE UP
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WHERE JAPAN
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ELSE GET
such as she
contemporaries, "the representative JAPAN is in desperate need experienced in has never before toric contraversles,
of to quote her Foreign Minister,sident Roosevelt slams down his English prose, n statesman-author, a Japan is "confronted with a trial ban on the export of aviation repository of vast knowledge in al-
spirit to countries outside the Western Hemisphere. most every subject of practical in- terest." Of Asquith's opinion he says that, in the prime of his life "they were cut in bronze, and vast knowledge, faithful Industry, deep thought were embedded in his na ture."
Lawrence of Arabia had "
genlus. He was a savant as well as
a soldier, an archaeologist as well as
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angle and 11 toga. It is labelled!, "Christopher Columbus,"
Doubtless the presence of a royal couple at Government House in Nassau will add to the attractions of that winter re- sort. It will certainly be a boon
they and the majority of the 10,000 to tourist traffic, population of their entire domain waiting for them. There nre 26
one white person.
By Abner Dean
starting at the bottom!"
other
CAN OIL?
11 may bring many noted visitors and blod new ties that may add to the prestige of Britain. It may tur an unfavourable trade balance into an asset for the first time in decader. But what will all this mean to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor?
In point honour. In a very minor Job in the British Empire, usually offered to an older public figure
who has won retirement to bisk his remaining days as a figure- head in the tropical sun. Naming the Duke of Windsor as "Commander In Chief well es Governor- signilles that he will be Commander in Chief of local defence.
As Governor, the Duke will con- trol less than 60 inhabited and some 2,050 uninhabited islands. The cun- tomary governor's yearly salary is $10,000. He will be assisted by an Executive Council of nine and a Re- presentative Assembly of 20. The real job seems to be that in which all countries are now engaged—try- ing to balance the budget, and only piling up a deficit,
In 1938, Imporis exceeded $4,000,- 000, and exports were around $700,- 000, Government revenues were 528,278 pounds sterling: expenditures 540.274 pounds. In this War Year of 1940, the figures are not expected to be anything like so mildly un- favourable.
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When he len't working on the Budget, how will the Duke and Duchess fare for entertainment and amusement to which they have been for so long accus- tomed? During the winter, there no doubt will be given some splendid routs at Government House.
And during the season, Paradise Beach on Hog Island is no less gay thun the Lido used to be. There is shooting and fishing all over the Islands and inlets. The Colonial Hotel was never a slouch at doing the right thing up brown.
the
producer, could help Japan. But the beneath the broad shade of the
These are
now Japan will
controlled by the unit than those controlled by the
Occasionally, perhaps, one may find the Duke and Duchess strolling dustry to step up production. organising Japan's own refining in-
Russia, world's second largest oil about quaint Nassau, pausing to rest Sphinx in the Kremin is hardly great silk-cotton tree where Ukely duct as soldier and subject will tong
smile on Russia's old enemy, buccaneers are said to have bartered, To carry on her war with China, serve as an example to all."
Which leaves the Dutch East In- and a hundred Negroes will rise and. Of the and without embarking upon further second he promises that "when I go adventures. Japan requires some
dier, fifth among the oil-producing bow to them. countries of the world. Heaven I shall try to arrange a 5,500,000 tons of oil a year.
They too may climb Queen's Stair- More than over chat between him and Socrates on Up till now the United States has look with longing cyce
at those case of a hundred steps and visit some subject not too recondite for me been supplying four-fifths of that full measure of the versatility uf to follow Не quotes a few say-!
Seas, strung like beads along the
rock. They may linger at the Tele- ings from his private sheaf of Bal amount. About 1,000,000 tons a year wealthy islands beyond the China Fort Fincastle carved out of solid
has come from the Dutch East Indies. fourlana. "Asquith's lucidity of style But it is unlikely that Japan's Equator, which, supply nearly three phone Exchange locating the exact a man of action, an accomplished scholar as well as an Arab partisan, has nothing to say."
san, is a positive disadvantage when he present war effort will be appreciably per cent. of the world's all produc-spot where the old Slave Auction
Again, Mr.
retarded as a consequence of the ion-2,000,000 barrels more than the luck used to stand, when it was
called Vendue House: a mechanic as well as a philosopher, He greally adentred Earl Birkenhead Churchill remarks that he has found United States' ban, because the Pre- total all output of Rumania.
Reineries serve all the producingj It helpful wh
They will surely visit the Sponge "when pessimista resident's decree concerns only aviation prating to rem
to remember that Balfour spirit. There is no ban, as yet, on elda in the Dutch East Indies. Market, whence comes the island's capable of supplying principal income and the signi mar- is said: "This
singularly a
crude oil exports. contrived world, but not so ill-con-
aviation spirit she ket where the coloured mavimles are Japan's imports of high-grade avia-Japan with the trived as that.
When he visited tion spirit, refined and ready for use, has up till now obtained from the offering a hundred articles of dyed.
lust Balfour during the
Abre. Just a short walk Japan, who stands twentieth in other look into the Sea Gardens the comething to say about the latter's fe he "saw with grin have never been considerable. In United States.
fact, those imports have been less Clemenceau, Alphonse and Trotsky high uplifted at regarding wit's several foreigners, including Fach, the approaching departure of a being than one per cent, of her total oil the list of oil-producing countries, perhaps and then finally they inny
has for some time past been making Of the first mentioned he says this: As I
In the first nine months of the desperate efforts to provide for the drop into the old prison that is now "The valour of his spirit and the calm, firm and cheerful raze the up- present war Japan imported 209,000 long-foreseen oll shortage: Buck in It all seems trivial sontehow from shrewd sagacity of his judgment, proach of Death, I felt how foolish barrels of aviation spirit from the 1934 a low was passed requiring all were of the highest order. Fortune the Stoles were, to make such a fuss United States (Britain's imports were importers to keep in storage an some peoples point of view. But lighted his crest." · Of the last-men- about an event so natural and 20 443,000 barrels):
amount of petroleum equal to one-not if the Duke of Windsor Intands to play the part of Britain's Goodwill tioned he remarks that he was "am- indispensable to mankind.”
But there is no doubt that if Japan half of their annual imports.
Intensive and expensive efforts Envoy to the Western Hemisphere! bitious and ambitious In quite a
There is space for a comment upon embarked upon a new adventure have been made to produce oil from "The Times" of London remarks, common worldly world could not
a great personage. of the late King necessitating a vastly increased con- lectivism in
V George Mr.
Churchill had this sumption of aviation spirit,
But Japan's immediate problem wol Wast Indies as a whole may the news of the appoint receive FAR EAST FLYing training SCHOOL LTD. rid him of an egoism which amount to say: "In harness to the last he would need a much greater quantity now would seem to be to extend and ment of the Duke of Windsor as
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welcome significance at a time Coming back to his own people inspiration to all concerned in the Mr. Churchill, treats of Earl Halg, government of men."This series of AND so the men in power in Japan Imported crude oil can be converted when events in Europe, and the Arthur Balfour, Curzon,, and Snow- portrails certainly furnishes an in- in her hour, men in power in Japan into the highly refined, knuck-free" friendly Interest of their meat neigh
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