Word: bastion
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...industries are drawing thousands of people into the cities. But a political conflict threatens to tear Morocco apart. The French, who govern with a firm colonial hand, offer administrative reforms. The Arab population demands full independence. The Arabs look to the U.S. American interest in Morocco as an Atlantic bastion (TIME, Feb. 19) has raised Arab hopes...
Moroccan shopkeepers began hoarding luxury goods and hiding their perfumes in happy anticipation of free-spending G.I.s. But there was a more realistic brand of rejoicing. Said a French official on the spot: "This proves that Morocco is considered a bastion of Europe...
...long as Germany was defenseless. This week, at long last, Acheson was prepared to be firm. Ernest Bevin was ready to back him. To both of them, the most important item before the Foreign Ministers was how, when and with what Germany would be strengthened to become the bastion of a free Europe...
...Acheson the problem of further aid to Formosa did not exist; the time was already past. Like China, argued the Secretary to the Congressmen, Formosa was all but lost, and to try to help Chiang Kai-shek on his final island bastion would jeopardize the whole U.S. stake in Asia...
...spite of the great danger involved, the fair-minded observer must conclude that the Law School's step has been well taken. Joint Instruction--never must the word "co-education" sully that happy arrangement--now envelopes the entire Yard in its embrace. Only the Lamont Library remains the final bastion of monasticism, and perhaps our great-grandchildren may live to see even its barriers fall...