Word: bastion
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...packed his bag with four crisp white suits, gathered up his books. If there had been time, he would have made his broadcast, a final appeal to America-an appeal for understanding from the world's last great bastion of freedom. But there was not time: The British Raj, intent on crushing the second Gandhi civil-disobedience campaign in World War II, was mad and tough...
...Urals are the chief seat of Soviet Asia's industrial power, "the inner bastion of Russian defense." The Magnitogorsk Steel Mill, which since 1936 has produced the cheapest pig iron in Russia, supports a mushroom metropolis of 200,000. The Cheliabinsk Tractor Plant, the world's biggest, now turns out tanks and armored cars. Twenty years ago Ekaterinburg, where the last Tsar and his family were shot in a cellar, was a city of 25,000. Now renamed Sverdlovsk, it is the junction of seven railroad lines, has a population...
...items in this Siberian inventory will surprise U.S. readers more than the report of large oilfields in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. If true, the real defensibility of the Siberian bastion may well depend on those fields. For it is generally believed that 85% of Russia's oil is in the Caucasus fields; that if the Germans conquer this oil even the Siberian military, industrial and agricultural machine will break down...
...Crimean War the British, French and Turks besieged Sevastopol for 329 days before the city fell. Last week, eight months after the Germans first approached Sevastopol, 23 days after Colonel General Fritz Erich von Manstein began his final assault, Berlin announced: "Sevastopol has fallen, over the bastion, city and harbor German and Rumanian war flags are flying." It was almost true. For two more days the killing went on. Under the wings of the Luftwaffe, from the city's bombed and blazing docks, the Russian Black Sea Fleet still rescued troops, commanders, wounded. In the streets, rear guards fought...
...could a 63-year-old slither down a makeshift rope from a cliff-walled Nazi fortress? How could a politically important prisoner escape from such a feudal bastion, guarded every hour by men alert to his potential value? Why would such an escaped prisoner walk into the arms of stooges working in handcuff harmony with his erstwhile captors...