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...Aviv, which twists from the city through the rocky Judean hills to the coastal plain. The city's Jewish population, which used to buy 80 to 90% of its food from neighboring Arabs, now depends on food convoys from the Jewish settlements along the coast. One strongpoint on that road is the village of Kastel, a cluster of dirty stone huts, one big house and a mosque. Jewish Haganah fighters, after seizing it, held it early last week. Then, one morning at dawn, the Arabs counterattacked...
...sample of what will happen eventually to all pockets. French armor, backed by U.S. artillery and aircraft, began the flattening of German-held positions on both sides of the Gironde estuary, which had blocked the use of Bordeaux as a port. In three days the Allies captured Royan, main strongpoint on the north side of the Gironde. The hopeless Germans continued to battle bitterly...
Building the Bastion. Meanwhile, the Nazis went ahead with preparations for their last stand. In Bolzano and Klagenfurt concentrations of 55 troops were reported, and work was being rushed on fortifications. Hitler's own Berchtesgaden was said to be another strongpoint. According to the stories reaching neutral capitals, the mountains around the Nazi strongpoints now bristle with defense works, repair shops, arms and munition depots. The caves of the ancient salt mines around Königs-See have been converted into subterranean hangars and air-dromes; into factories making guns, planes and synthetic gasoline...
...first American cargo ship to enter Manila Harbor since 1942 steamed past Corregidor's battered casemates, 24th Division troops stormed tiny Verde Island, midway between Luzon and Mindoro. It was the last Japanese strongpoint astride the shortest sea route...
...last week, the New Deal candidate for governor made a desperate attempt to defeat popular Republican Governor Raymond E. Baldwin by accusing him of having "deserted" Willkie to become a "Hoover Republican." Governor Baldwin, who seconded Willkie's nomination in Philadelphia in 1940, and who had been a strongpoint in Willkie's strategy ever since, could not take this lying down. So Governor Baldwin told a little history. Said...