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Only around the rim of the Bohemian bastion were Wehrmacht divisions on the offensive. Probable German objective: to hold this natural fortress for a last fanatical stand...
South of Germany three Russian armies were now in action. One army, stalled at Budapest, had pivoted northward, by week's end had captured Miskolc, fortified and held by the Germans as a bastion of northern Hungary. Farther east a second had sprung to life, attacked in the mountains of Slovakia. Moscow did not announce it until last week, but in mid-November a third army had joined in, crossing the Danube 130 miles below Budapest...
Kweiyang ordered evacuation of all nonessential workers; all U.S. and British citizens were ordered to leave Kweichow province; thousands of misery-stricken refugees were pouring out of Kweichow into the Szechwan bastion beyond Chungking...
Saipan had already become the bastion for attack on Japan (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). From Guam, 128 miles south, New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Bert Andrews cabled: "It would be helpful if the home-held picture of Guam as a tiny Pacific 'pin point' were dispelled." Through heaviest censorship he slipped a general's quote: "This will be another Pearl Harbor...
...Said Bismarck: "He who controls the Bohemian bastion controls Europe...