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...joint action against Communist aggression or subversion. Said Dulles: "It may serve the needs of our time as effectively as the Monroe Doctrine served the needs of our nation during the last century." Only three months after Caracas, Jacobo Arbenz' Communist-dominated government of Guatemala, the only Red bastion in the western hemisphere, was overthrown by the anti-Communist forces of Castillo Armas...
...Belgium, where as leader of the heroic "battered bastards of the bastion of Bastogne" he uttered his famed "Nuts!" to a German surrender demand, Lieut. General Anthony C. McAuliffe was a palace guest of King Baudouin and later heard himself eulogized in a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the U.S. garrison's besiegement...
EUROPE'S BASTION IS STRONG GERMANY FORMER PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER speaking to the German press in Bonn...
...from our many years' experience with the Communists, we must await works rather than words. We should not be lulled into the abandonment of our means of defense. The German peoples have before now been the bastion of Western civilization which deterred its destruction by the Asiatic hordes. My prayer is Germany may be given the unity and freedom which will restore her to that mission in the world...
...ruins of the decayed and defeated Ottoman Empire rose a new Turkish republic that stands today as democracy's strongest bastion in the Middle East. This was the achievement of one man, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. After World War I he raised a new army and drove out the Greeks, who were occupying Turkey with Allied backing. He threw out the established Moslem religion, warred on the fez and the veil, forced Western clothes, laws, letters and institutions on 16 million bewildered Turks. Through all the years of dazzling leadership, this bitter, sullen, debauched son of the Salonika slums never...