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LONDON--Sweeping on through town and village, in the face of blinding snow storms, Russian troops struck tonight at Vyazma, last bastion of the great German offensive quadilateral which for 17 months had faced Moscow...
...local Social Democratic leader whom Authors Weyl and Jansen call Kurt Riemann: "If we stick to the legal way our enemies will be destroyed, because right will be on our side." But Social Democracy was destroyed. "In the case of Germany the democrats of Weimar had relinquished the bastion without raising a hand in its defense; in the case of Czecho-Slovakia, it was the democrats of the world...
...Japanese Army. Traveling slowly via Suez and Singapore, young Haushofer hailed the flag of the Rising Sun with "immense relief." His long journey from the Fatherland had been humiliating: at many stages of the ship's passage-Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Aden, India, Singapore-he had seen a rocky bastion rise from the water flying the British Union Jack. A trained geographer, young Haushofer well knew of Britain's imperial lifeline. But on his trip this line took on a new and shocking significance in his eyes: it became a great steel shackle around the body of Germany...
Against Nehring's ring, Anderson's troops jabbed. Axis air strength delayed but did not stop them as they attacked the outlying bastion of the German lines. When Nehring counterattacked with tanks they hurled him back. They seized the town of Djedeida, twelve miles from Tunis, and all but isolated that city from Bizerte. Nehring destroyed roads, blew up bridges, dug in for defense. Milch sent his dive-bombers screeching overhead. From Algeria came word that as soon as Doolittle's fighters could spread an umbrella, the First Army would make its final, headlong charge into...
...there ever were on Bataan. The Japs apparently do not yet have three-to-one superiority classically thought necessary for certain success. On Guadalcanal, U.S. forces have had absolute air superiority-maintained though it has been under primitive, improvised conditions. Most important of all, Guadalcanal is not an encircled bastion "there is a solid, though terribly long, supply line between it and its U.S. arsenal...