Word: citadel
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...reached a stage where Italy could not withdraw, could not be neutral. If she were not on the German side, she had to take the Allied side. For Italy had become a vital breach in Festung Europa, an avenue to, and a rampart of, the inner citadel of Germany. The Anglo-American and the German military machines were squeezing her hard...
...Crete in the south into rear-guard battlefields. As in Sicily, limited German forces would fight for those lands-not to hold them indefinitely, but to make invasion as slow and expensive as possible for the Allies. Weltwoche said that the Germans hoped only to hold an inner citadel-Germany itself, a part of Holland, and the eastern borderlands of the Ukraine, Poland, Hungary and Rumania...
...these were indeed the German plans they were plans of despair when they were conceived. Now, as never before, the Russians threaten the citadel from the east (see col. 2). The Allies move upon it, though slowly, by land and by air from the west and the south. In the end, inner Europe cannot be a citadel for the Germans. It can only be a trap...
...alumni are extremely proud of the record made by Citadel men both in past wars and in peacetime, and we feel sure that they will live up to this record in the present conflict...
Your_ statement to the effect that The Citadel is the nation's staunchest stronghold of the Grey traditions is a high compliment, and well-deserved by the Old School...