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Since World War II, the U.S. has spent $588 million converting Okinawa into the key U.S. military bastion in the Far East. Last week Okinawa's biggest city (pop. 180,000) had a chief executive pledged to rid the island of its "atom-hydrogen bomb base," and to return it to Japanese rule. Said a high-ranking U.S. officer: "Our chief task is to prevent Okinawa becoming a Pacific Cyprus...
...moral impact is beginning to be felt, e.g., in the Republic of South Viet Nam, which U.S. aid and Vietnamese enterprise have transformed in less than three years from a war-ravaged country into a notable anti-Communist bastion. There doughty President Ngo Dinh Diem (TIME, May 20) is now lifting a standard that attracts many another Asian leader: he is providing remarkable proof that economic planning can be successfully combined with the classical values of Asia...
Buckley's Bastion...
...barons of England forced King John to sign their Magna Charta, the freemen of Hungary made their own King Andrew sign a comparable document known as the Golden Bull, the first charter of human rights on the European continent. But Hungary, unlike insular England, was set like a bastion between the conflicting civilizations of East and West, and under the strain of constant warring, the rights guaranteed by the bull and the crown had to be fought for again and again. Democracy as it is known in most of the West today has never found Hungary congenial for long...
...will establish peace upon its only enduring foundations of justice and charity. With him we urge upon the world not the counsels of despair which would describe the situation as beyond salvation . . . Foremost, inevitably, in our thinking are the heroic people of Hungary. For centuries they have been a bastion of Christendom against the outer perils . . . Now again they have received the full brunt of a calculated fury and have written a matchless chapter in the annals of freedom...