Word: excaliburs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Embassy. Suddenly he resigned, became a man with a message. Steaming back across the Atlantic aboard the refugee ship Excalibur, he prepared a four-page, handwritten document for his adopted country. Last week he presented it to newsmen in Manhattan. It was an enlightening commentary on the beliefs and translating ability of an aide in the U. S. Embassy. Excerpts: ^ "European democracies have outlived themselves because true democratic principles have vanished." ^ "There is no chance for the morale of Germany being shaken. . . . Germans are not disappointed with the delay of the invasion of England, knowing that Germany will unexpectedly defeat...
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...
...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...
...Duke: "It gives me great pleasure to be sailing on a ship flying the American flag." In Washington it gave the State Department jitters that British warships were said to be following the Excalibur to guard the Duke from seizure by German or Italian war craft. U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles declared it would be an "inconceivable" violation of U. S. neutrality if the Excalibur were "convoyed" by British warships...
Leaving Lisbon, the Excalibur moved steadily as a train across a bright, glassy Atlantic, and the Duke went up on the bridge to wave to a Clipper which soared overhead, and exchanged radio greetings with its skipper. Resting aboard the Clipper, unaware of the waving Duke, was Refugee Baron Eugene de Rothschild at whose Austrian castle Edward lived in seclusion after his abdication and before his marriage to Mrs. Simpson. In a suite of cabins aboard the Excalibur, enclosing a private veranda, the Windsors entertained the U. S. diplomats & wives privately, but often walked their dogs on the public decks...