Word: bulwarking
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...Before God to Hitler!" In Germany devout Christians, heartened by their priests and pastors, have been called a bulwark against Nazi extremism. To win the votes of these good folk by unctuous conciliation last week was not the strategy of "My Leader." After more than a year of hesitant bickering, German Protestants suddenly felt the whip of Reichs bischof Ludwig Müller, a square-headed, ruthless, onetime army chaplain picked by Catholic Hitler to be their Evangelical Shepherd...
Contrary to popular belief, Congress has never been more important to national welfare than at present. It is the great bulwark of what is most valuable in our inherited American government. That three such telling exhibitions of obtuseness should be displayed at such a time is indeed disheartening...
...deciding factor which has immeasurably aggravated the tension is the decline of French dominance over Europe. The defection of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria has really broken up an alignment which was the main bulwark of her "security." With the more or less open and certainly rapid rearming of Germany, and the upstart manoevering of Mussolini--which produced the Balkan pact--France finds herself in an unobtrusive backseat. The League has gone, the Treaty with it, Germany is on the road back, (with an obvious goal,) and internally France is weakened by uncertainly--the stage could not better...
...heirs. There was a time when long-legged Gustaf, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends, was more plentifully supplied with heirs than any other monarch in all Europe. He had two sons and five grandsons, hardy scions of Napoleon's General Bernadotte. In reserve to bulwark his line, he had three brothers. But these princes seemed to have a family failing for marrying commoners. Brother Oscar went first, for love of a lady-in-waiting, after renouncing his right of succession. His son Folke went next, for Estelle of the U. S. roofing Manvilles. Last year...
...aristocratic antecedents would be more satisfactory to all groups in Austria than any of the bloody alternatives which face them; last, the government which seemed to have the most chance of establishing some sort of political stability and could at the same time act as a strong bulwark against Hitlerism would have the united support of the powers and especially of Italy, which is even now making friendly overtures to the Prince. A Fascist Regency headed by Starhemberg satisfies all these conditions. It looks as though the Prince's hour has arrived; and everything seems to indicate that he will...