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Guinea toward Port Moresby, key to Australia. The third was moving down the southern Gilberts, possibly toward the Fijis. Wrote Correspondent Baldwin: "The American-held portion of the southeastern Solomons stood like a bastion in the path of these enemy operations...
...blue Pacific, plunk on the Equator, the U.S. now has an outlying bastion to protect the Panama Canal. Last week the State Department told how the U.S. had acquired military rights on the fabled, sultry, barren Galápagos Islands, long coveted by military strategists of many nations-and especially Japan. Also acquired from the owner, Ecuador, is another base on Santa Elena peninsula, Ecuador's westernmost tip, commanding the entrance to Ecuador's strategic Guayaquil Gulf. These new military outposts form a protective bastion within radius of 785 to 1,000 miles guarding the western approaches...
Returning from India, U.S. Industrialist Henry Francis Grady revealed last week that U.S. experts had thoroughly canvassed India's possibilities as a strategic military bastion and a source of materiel. Wherever he went Grady heard the old complaint that war production was hampered by Britain's protection of her own interests and by the apathy of labor and industry. The full Grady report was not released, but its recommendation that U.S. engineers and technicians be sent to speed up Indian war production was evidence of the U.S. stake in India and the need for internal stability...
...this, but at the concrete bastion there had not yet been a sound. Then came the concussion. Even a mile away behind walls of concrete, there was a jerk, a jar and the observers felt as if Paul Bunyan had slapped them on the back...
Less emotionally, Nehru has claimed for years that the British Indian Government is effective only with repressive measures. He has stuck barbs of sarcasm into the classic Tory theory that Britain must dominate India because: 1) it is the bastion of empire and the bulwark of Britain's world power; 2) the economic standard of the British Isles is built on India's wealth; 3) without Britain's strong ruling hand, India's racial and religious groups, unable and untrained to govern themselves, will fly at each other's throats in anarchy, chaos and civil...