When James I in 1615 granted the "still-vexed Bermoothes" their charter and Assembly, it was with the settlers' promise that "if any assailed the island, not cowardly to yield the same." Last week Bermuda's Assembly seemed more than ready to yield their island* to an old assailant, long held at bay. On a Hamilton wharf stood the enemy in forceĀthe largest shipment of new cars ever to arrive from England.
Forbidden on.public roads since 1908, private cars have long since infiltrated Bermuda's big estates. When U.S. troops arrived in 1941 with a thousand-odd snorting jeeps, trucks and staff cars,...
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