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...minded neighbor, Egypt. The British annexed Sudan in 1899, after an Anglo-Egyptian army defeated Mahdi's followers at the battle of Omdurman. At first both London and Cairo shared the administration, but in 1925 the British kicked their partner out. Egyptian independence left Sudan as the northern bulwark of Britain's East African Empire. Sudan was Cairo's fief in the days before the Mahdi; more important, it controls the headstreams of the Nile. Cairo's policy is to unite the Nile valley from source to estuary, i.e., to annex Sudan. Britain's counterproposal...
They must decide whether they will give their firm support to the European Army treaty, which would set up a strong bulwark against a possible Soviet march. They must decide whether they will accept the Russian invitation to foreign ministers for a meeting in Berlin, and if so, what united position they will take on the question of Germany...
...last bulwark of conservatism...
Caught up in their careers like middle-class people the world over, these Mexicans are obviously not revolutionaries in the old Latin American sense. With their stake in society, they are rather a new bulwark against the succession of rebellions that kept Mexico on edge through much of its history. They are nevertheless the products of the great social upheaval that took the lives of some 1,500,000 Mexicans a generation or so ago. Until the Mexican revolution, the nation suffered from a form of split personality, oppressed or angered by the ever-present reminders of a high Indian...
...Moscow as no German has been since the days of Von Ribbentrop. In a sudden onrush of vodka, the workers' rebellion of June 17 and the puppet regime's consequent loss of face, were supposed to be forgotten. Malenkov toasted the East German regime as "the bulwark of peaceful forces of all Germany"; he promised to give it "full support and help." A Kremlin communiqué showed what Malenkov had in mind. He offered...