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When unrest spread to Moscow, Stalin gave him extraordinary powers. Comrade Kaganovich built the famed Moscow subway; he also cast thousands of Moscovites into jail and changed Moscow into a bastion of the party line. Twice he undertook "pacification" measures in the restless Ukraine, and during World War II he reorganized the Soviet Union's dislocated railroad system, introduced the death penalty for failure to make schedules. Kaganovich was the first man to make servile speeches about Stalin's "genius." His sister Roza was Stalin's mistress, possibly his second wife...
...Bastion in FOREIGN NEWS deals with the recently concluded Iraq-Turkey defense treaty to which I would like to add a footnote supplied by Keith Wheeler, our Middle East correspondent. Wheeler was dining with KING SAUD of Saudi Arabia the night the King got the news that the treaty had been signed. Cabled Wheeler on the King's reaction: "It is his custom to have an official crier call out the latest news bulletins during meals. The treaty news was bad news for the Arabs. It came between the turkey with green beans and the steak with truffles...
...Britain could build a new "little NATO,"the bases could safely be turned over to it. The planes and men would remain largely British. But they would be there not by imposition of a "colonial" power, but as partners in mutual defense. Thus, the West would gain more solid bastion in the shifting political sands of the Middle East...
...Europe. Britain knows what is best for her, just as we know what is best for us. Australia is in the Pacific. Australia shares America's view that Communism must be contained in the Pacific. Britain has shown herself more conciliatory to Communism's Asian bastion-Red China. Britain has recognized the Peiping Government, but Australia has not. Britain has supported Red China's efforts to join the United Nations, but Australia...
...exploded. Among the last demolitions were the modern hospital and the irrigation and reservoir system built by the FOA at a cost of $500,000 in the days when U.S. Intelligence officers were using an island-wide loudspeaker system to assure the islanders that the Tachens were "the bastion of Formosa" and "the steppingstones to the mainland." Said U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin, who waded ashore in a pin-striped suit: "A tragic moment. This is only one chapter, not the end of the book...