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Duke
Get
of Windsor May New Job Shortly
By JOAN YOUNGER (United Press Staff Correspondent)
NEW YORK, Nov. 14.-Neither the Duke and Duchess of Windsor nor the Bahamians think that the former British king's job as governor| of the Bahamas will last very long.
This is the conclusion reached after a month at Nassau during which I "covered" activities of the Windsors, had many conversations with them and talked with in- numerable residents and officials.
The last time I spoke to the Duchess she went so far as to say Antly that she did not consider Government House as "hers" but an official residence. This fact, she said, underlay all her plans for its redecoration.
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"I want to do this house so that the next governor can move right in without having it redecorated," she said. "It isn't as if it were my home-it is an official residence and I want to decorate it to harmonise with anyone's belongings."
her hus- dwindling tourist trade which has The Inference that band's job as Governor of the already suffered as result of the war When I asked him if he thought, Bahamas is only temporary fits that the Windsors would innke such
BRITISH TROOPS IN GREECE
>>> FROM PAGE ONE
went
with embarkation
through astonishing' rapidity and smoothness. Within five minutes the first lorries were already on their way through in with the general belief in a request be refused to reply, but he this cheering crowds to the town. Nassau that the Duke is only added that at any rate, he didn't All tommies were anxious to know how Greece was faring and were full stopping off in the small capital think they would be there long. on his way to bigger things. "It is just a temporary question of admiration for the Greek troops
giving His Royal Highness safe-on all fronts. But what these bigger things ty," he said. "When the war blows
and Men
inaterial were poured in are is a matter of controversy over, he may be reinstated in Eng-a ccntinuous stream from the war- With minimum. of fuss. Many Bahamians believe that land or retire to private lite. Un-ps
even
while governor of the less of course, the impossible happens Troops represented the full com- and Hitler wins. In that case the piement necessary for defence and islands, he will serve as an unDuke would be in a very valuable maintenance of British air bases- official goodwill ambassador to
men of the Royal Army Service position indeed." America, The Duke himself The official explained, this latter Corps mingled with engineers and denied this, though he stressed statement-by-pointing out that even mechanies, hundreds of the Air Force his feeling of friendship for the the British Isles themselves were ground staff and New Zealand
conquered, the Empire's life in the suppers. United States and expressed a Western Hemisphere would continue.
In Good Heart wish to be back soon." He de- Might Head Federacy
The men were in high fettle after In this case, he said, the long talk-their trip. During the whole voyage 'ISLAND OF DOOMED MEN"clared that both he and the
Duchess would make a triped of federated West Indies might they never saw a single hostile plane "after the elections and before certainly be in line for its presidency harbour and threw their hats into
come into being and the Duke would vessel,
Great crowd sassembled in the the New Year" through the So far Nassau has provided the United States, continuing on to Windsors with little more than the the air as lorry after lorry raced through the tain and a similar Canada to visit his ranch near rest they needed after their fight welcome was given the troops all before the advancing German forces. Calgary.
"America is, after all, the The Duchess has busled herself with along the route. Duchess' own country," he said House, the Duke has divided his time sugerly awaited in Greece and the with a smile at his wife, between conferences with local of-arrival of the troops is bound to have
ficials and the golf course where he great effect on Greek morale. Bahamas Hopeful
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offelul told me there was in general feeling that if the Duke asked his brother, King George VI,
the redecoration of Government
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The sight of British khaki had been
braved the heat daily to play TURKEY AWAITS
with his nides de camp.
And the fact that the Ductless would like to get away-at least for
to be withdrawn, the King would a while-from Nassau was obvious. comply with his wishes. And that, One of the last things she said to me the official said, would be tragedy was: "How I envy you going back to for the Bahamas, a final blow at their New York!"
BERLIN OFFENDED BY
REPORTS IN SWEDISH PRESS
In spite of persistent German criticism of the Swedish Press for publishing news from British "sewer" sources, the London dis- patches to the Swedish newspapers form the political material for news from Great Britain in the German Press..
ties offered for anti-British propu Dr. Johannós Wickman, the gands." foreign editor of Dagens Nyhe-
"Evasive Undertones"
H
NAZIS' MOVES
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Yugo-Slavin would resist any Italian Incursion.
German participation would be re- garded much more seriously but even then it is unlikely that she would; allow herself to be-drawn passively Into the Axis yoke.
Russia's attitude, na mains enigmatic.
always, 're-
Chinese View
The "Central Daily News,"
• CHUNGKING, Nov. 24 (Reuter).........
corres- pondent says that Hitler has
Jost freedom of action. "There has been ter, discusses this apparent in-
jevidence of strong Soviet pressure | contrasting the vigilant (which is serious enough for a country consistency in a long article in Alter which he points out that the vehemence of German comment on adopting a defensive role, but for a German indignation can hardly the Swedish Press with the "evasive country adopting the offensive it must
Andertones" used in dealing with be regarded as a serious danger," refer to the mere existence of America's attitude, Dr. Wickman the British messages, but rather concludes"Apparently, the London applies to the form in whleh messages distasteful to Germany are to disappear from the Swedish Press ara served up.
not because their publication here affect the war Way any would In situation to Germany's disadvantage, Įbut because ́R
German
would the make the fate of
democracy to be sealed and the claims thus seem irresistible.
"The Dagens Nyheter message of August 20, with the heading Finnish steamer seized." he writes, "was Boraen Berliner reported by the Zeitung with the headline British mak
Swedish newsonopoly of
pirkey.*A messagè about the with- adaptation ble to avoid
drawal of British troops from British territories In China gets the Berlin the impression that the attacks on headline Here also a "friend" is left the Swedish Press are really a deter- in the lurch.
mined warfare on the political plane A message on the raising of the against Sweden's independence and recruiting age of the British Air against Swedish democracy," " Force is interprated in the Berin After the connscation of the headlines as a proof that Great Gothenburg Handelstidning, the Britain suffering from a lack of newspaper is again, on sale. The cannon fodder, redson for the conflation is a legal The German complaints thus soon cleuens, providing for confiscation to refer to the objective treatment of without irl in cases where a "miss British news in the Swedish Press understanding with a foreign/Power? and ita failure to use the opportunie has uripen,
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