Hurricane from U. S.

In the hurricane season the wind in Bermuda blows 80 m.p.h., rips shutters off walls, cedars out of the ground. Last week Bermuda was shaken by a hurricane of another kind as the result of a speech in the U. S. House of Representatives by Pennsylvania's loose-tongued Louis Thomas McFadden, impeacher of Herbert Hoover. Declared Representative McFadden :

"Some years ago Ramsay MacDonald, Premier of England, made a historic visit to the United States, during which he engaged in a famous secret conversation with the then President Herbert Hoover while both were sitting upon a log at the Rapidan Camp. . . . There have been many surmises and speculations as to what was said, but the veil of silence has remained unlifted until today. . . . I believe the time has come to make it public. I shall now do so. . . .

"I am told that Mr. MacDonald offered to transfer the Bermuda Islands to the United States in part payment of the British debt and that after some consideration Mr. Hoover declined the offer. . . . I am also informed that the title of the British Government to the Bermudas is about to be questioned in British courts and that the case of the Crown is not a strong one."

All this was news to Bermuda and to Britain. Said Salisbury Stanley Spurling, member of Executive Council and unofficial Prime Minister of Bermuda:

"I know nothing of the offer, but I would unhesitatingly oppose it for both sentimental and political reasons."

Suggested Councilor Howard Trott:

"Bermuda might as well take over the United States and run that country for a bit."

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