Word: bastioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Sudan south, the Central African bastion would widen out. From it, the British would be able to slam the gates of Suez on any aggressor. They could rake an enemy in the Persian oilfields with rockets launched in Kenya or Khartoum. No threat to a peaceful Soviet Union, the African girdle might be a potent barrier to Russian expansion across the Middle East toward India...
...would be a work by, and for, what he called the "seven English-speaking Catholic nations" (Britain, Eire, the four Dominions, the U.S.). It would be a retreat and meeting place for Catholics of all nations and for men of all Christian faiths. And it would be a bastion. "The world," Elwes says, "is dividing into the anti-Gods and the pro-Gods." By anti-Gods he means not only Soviet Russians and Communists everywhere but materialists in general, who, in his opinion, are driving the world to its atomic hell. "I like to think of Fountains Abbey," he says...
Washington was careful not to slight Ottawa's sovereignty or her ties with Great Britain. The U.S. would share the cost with Canada. But otherwise neither partner's foreign policy would be tied to the other. The purpose was purely military, to build a bastion against attack from the north. Nobody mentioned the name of any likely attacker from that quarter...
...bastion of empire the proconsuls gathered. To Singapore, at the request of handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied "Supremo" for Southeast Asia, hurried Britain's genial Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison, commander in Indonesia; France's dashing Major General Jacques Leclerc, commander in Indo-China; Holland's determined Hubertus J. van Mook, Acting Governor General of the East Indies. Waiting to meet them and assess their problems was Britain's peripatetic Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff. While houseboys served cooling drinks, the masters conferred on a new policy toward 94,000,000 rebellious...
Half a Victory? The war had stimulated the growth of Communism, but nowhere had the Soviet military arm presented the Soviet political arm with an absolute victory. Communist parties were still minority parties, albeit stronger, more experienced, more effective. Throughout Russia's eastern bastion, Communist tails were wagging non-Communist dogs with the utmost adroitness, but with increasing difficulty...