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...pressure. At issue is Spain's rankling sense of being the only European nation with a foreign colony on its soil. This anachronism must end, says Madrid, and Gibraltar must be returned to Spain, to which it belonged in 1704, when a sudden British-Dutch attack captured the fortress in three days...
This year marks the seven-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the British parliament, conceived as a fortress of feudal, aristocratic power. We also celebrate the one thousand thirty-fifth year of the less well-known but equally durable Icelandic parliamentary assembly, the Allthing...
Early in 1945, the conquering Russian army surged into East Prussia and besieged the fortress city of Konigsberg. Some of the panicky citizens committed suicide. Others began learning welcoming phrases in Russian. Count von Lehndorff, a civilian surgeon, awaited the end with Christian resignation and continued operating on wounded soldiers and civilians until a shell dismantled his surgery. A woman told him, "Our Führer will never permit the Russians to get us; he'd rather gas us first...
...Denmark's Lutheranism. Time and again, also, Christianity has undergone revolutionary second Pentecosts, and survived by adopting radical new forms of life. The Christian cell of believers, worshiping in the catacombs, brought the church through centuries of Roman persecutions. In the Dark Ages of the 9th century, the fortress monasteries of the Benedictines saved the faith of Europe-and the culture of its Greco-Roman past-from the triumph of marauding barbarians...
...head off crisis and knit nations together. Using their specialized skills, they have built a delicately balanced monetary structure that for 20 years has helped to expand trade, travel and economic growth around the world. Last week they faced - and over came - the greatest challenge since their financial fortress was created at Bretton Woods, N.H., in 1944. It was a British crisis, but the U.S. reactions to it hold potentially important consequences for the U.S. economy...