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...greatest bastion of all is the fortress of the British Isles, and there were suggestions that even that might be assaulted. In Berlin the Italian and Japanese Ambassadors attended a meeting to discuss "new and important tasks resulting from the common war against the Anglo-Saxon powers." Present to explain those tasks were Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and Field Marshal Erhard Milch of the Air Force. Last June, when he launched his attack on Russia, Adolf Hitler spoke of "the tying up of such powerful German forces in the east that the radical conclusion...
Japan was said to have thrown not only ships, but planes and ground forces into this long-awaited lunge at America's chief bastion of defense in the Pacific...
...peace bid. Winston Churchill had already said flatly that Britain would never treat with a Nazi (TIME, Nov. 17). Ambassador von Papen's interview was given to the correspondent of a Barcelona newspaper and was directed at Spain and Turkey. Germany, he said, regarded Turkey as a "bastion of peace" at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, as Spain was in the west. This week Berne reported German troop movements as far south as northern Spain...
...position now." Noon passed, and Longstreet did not feel ready to undertake his seemingly tough assignment. Not until 3:30 did the advance begin; it was 6 when the Confederates actually got a brief foothold on Little Round Top, only to be driven back. Had Longstreet won that bastion in the Union line, the full assault on the main Union position the next day-Pickett's charge-might not have been a disastrous failure. It might never have been necessary...
...result of the Battle of Russia may well be millions of Russian workers to swell the Nazi labor battalions; new Slav divisions to swell the Nazi Armies. Where can Britain and the U.S. turn for man power to offset this menacing mass? If Britain is democracy's European bastion, the U.S. democracy's arsenal, China is its untapped source of vast potential fighting power. Chiang's war messages make it clear that he has long been waiting for the democracies to see this point. If they do not, they can be sure that Hitler will...