Word: bulwarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian battlefields. It was not solely the fact that Bock and his Germans had yet to win Stalingrad, the lower Volga and the Caucasus. It was not the hope, almost the certainty, that if all was lost in the south, if the Red Army was no longer the saving bulwark of the U.S. and Great Britain, Russia would still survive for the Russians. It was not the hope, which even the hard-minded Russians seized and fondled last week, that the German losses in south Russia was irreparably weakening the German armies...
Similarities. The two dictators have a common and outspoken fear of the Anglo-Russian pact and the increasing solidarity of the United Nations with Russia. They believe that Germany is their bulwark against Communist doctrine and Russian post-war political influence. Both are increasingly dependent on Germany for trade. From the U.S. Portugal has received slimmer & slimmer shipments of oil, tobacco, fertilizer and foodstuff. Spain has been getting shiploads of wheat for her sullen peons and rickety children...
Less emotionally, Nehru has claimed for years that the British Indian Government is effective only with repressive measures. He has stuck barbs of sarcasm into the classic Tory theory that Britain must dominate India because: 1) it is the bastion of empire and the bulwark of Britain's world power; 2) the economic standard of the British Isles is built on India's wealth; 3) without Britain's strong ruling hand, India's racial and religious groups, unable and untrained to govern themselves, will fly at each other's throats in anarchy, chaos and civil...
...decisive sea battles of history was fought last week in the placid waters between Java and Borneo. It was the naval battle for Java. It was a battle for the last bulwark against Japanese conquest of the Indies, a battle for the Southwest Pacific, a battle for a great chunk of the world's seas and sea power. It was a battle fought too late and in the wrong place, lost before it began...
Rangoon was shaky, but Rangoon was holding. In the line, fighting side by side with defending troops, were fresh reinforcements of Chinese soldiers, who had marched 1,000 miles by foot into Burma (TIME, Feb. 2). Wise to the ways of Japanese warfare, they would be a bulwark in the great battle that must surely come...