Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knew the importance of the step. That morning they had read in Sao Tang Pao (the Army newspaper) a selection from Chiang's new book China's Destiny: "In the past China's destiny depended on foreign policy. Now it depends on our ability to secure inner political unification and concentration of national power. China stands at the watershed of her fate, a fate which will be decided during the present war and within two years...
...cost-was probably never much more than propaganda, and it began to fade months ago. There were reports that the Germans planned to leave most of Italy and Yugoslavia, all of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete and their Mediterranean islands outside their main line of continental defense. An inner fortress, to be held as a last barrier around the Reich, would include northern Italy and Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, and a Russian front running through eastern Poland. But, said these reports, the Germans would surrender lower Italy and the other outlands only after the fiercest rearguard fighting...
...Adriatic. These reports had a ring of truth. On that coast, at its few practicable points of entry,, the Germans can hope to gain time and inflict heavy losses in a profitable rear-guard-stand. It is there, if anywhere, that they must hold a gate to their inner fortress-and fight to bar the British and Americans from a junction with the Russians...
...Italy. If they would, the Turks could rob the Germans of all the time that they now hope to gain by resistance in northern Italy and Yugoslavia. For, with a free entry through Turkey, the Allies could establish a front in Bulgaria, attack the Rumanian hinge of the inner fortress, deprive the Germans of Ploesti's oil, threaten their armies in southern Russia from the rear...
...points. The war had 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...