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...Close cooperation with the U.S. in defense of the American continent; inclusion of Britain as a bastion of American defenses...
...press five weeks ago, the long-awaited, ill-fated German summer offensive of 1943 had not yet spent its strength. Last week, after a relentless, inch-by-inch, 24-day counterdrive, the powerful Red Army seized Orel and drove on. For nearly two years Orel had been a key bastion of Hitler's forces in Russia. Now the Wehrmacht's high command issued a terse communiqué: "In the course of a shortening of the front in the Orel bend, the evacuation of the city of Orel, which had been planned for quite some time was carried...
Within the residential bastion, Pepe grinned and settled down for a long siege. He planned to remain out of circulation until Aug. 10, when Congress convenes. At that time the President's dictatorial powers for maintaining the status quo will automatically expire. Congress, he hoped, will save him from Police Minister Aguilar, from President Arroyo del Rio and from confinement at Guaranda. Said he: "I did not pledge my word to return. . . . They even refused to clean my cell lest I should have someone to talk...
...diver, pilot of the old Flying Fortress Swoose, which has "worn ruts" across the Pacific ferrying Lieut. General George Brett, former United Nations Air Force Commander in the Southwest Pacific, knew the story. He had flown the long battle of airfields from Clark Field in the Philippines to the bastion of Australia. This week the story was out, in a new book by War Correspondent W. L. White (They Were Expendable, TIME, Sept. 28). Using the formula that was such a sensational success in the tale of the PT boats in the Philippines, Author White lets Frank Kurtz...
LONDON -- Russian troops have driven to a point north of Dukhovshina, only 30 miles northeast of Smolensk and 12 1/2 miles northwest of the defense bastion of Yariseve, Russia's Tuesday midnight communique revealed today...