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Russia could have had complete freedom of access to the Dardanelles. The U.S. and Britain had offered her that at Potsdam, he disclosed, and "to this guarantee I am convinced Turkey would gladly have subscribed. But we were told that this was not enough. Russia must have a fortress inside the Straits from which she could dominate Constantinople...
...Helgoland, Germany's rocky North Sea fortress, would be battered soon by "Tall Boy" and "Grand Slam," Britain's bigger & better (12,000 lbs. and 22,000 lbs.) R.A.F. bombs...
Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain complained that the mountain air at the fortress of Portalet in the Pyrenees was too cold for an old lifer like him. He was moved to the prison colony on the He d'Yeu, in the Bay of Biscay...
...Henri Philippe Pétain, 89, former Marshal of France: serving a life sentence (commuted from death penalty) in a Pyrenees fortress...
Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Quisling was awakened at 2 a.m. and hurried from his cell to a square in Oslo's somber Akershus Fortress. Awaiting him were a clergyman, a state prosecutor and a firing squad, an officer and ten men. No photographers, no reporters recorded his last abasement or his last heroics...