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...myself of this opportunity to state my views thereon ... Prior [to the past war] the Western strategic frontier of the U.S. lay on the littoral line of the Americas, with an exposed island salient extending out through Hawaii, Midway and Guam to the Philippines. That salient was not an outpost of strength, but an avenue of weakness along which the enemy could and did attack...
...that it wishes to stay independent, Tibet decided last year, after centuries of mountain isolation, to send an ambassador to London. A prominent Tibetan, one Yuthok Dzasa, was chosen for the post, started his long trip down from the capital of Lhasa. He stopped off at Kalimpong, a small outpost in the hills of northeast India, to clear up the diplomatic preliminaries with Britain. In anticipation of the barbaric fashions of the Court of St. James's, Yuthok cut off his waist-length hair, the mark of a Tibetan layman* of distincton...
...Europe, the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, with its gossipy items about tourists and its store of U.S. news, has always been as comforting as a letter from home. Since its first issue in October 1887, the Herald has also been a comforting and legendary outpost for a legion of freewheeling roistering U.S. newsmen who worked there while they saw Paris-and later filled a dozen books with their nostalgic, wine-ripened memories. But the Herald Tribune has never found it easy to keep its 62-year-old outpost victualed and supplied. Its circulation, once...
Goums and French Foreign Legion troops are holding the outpost of Dong-dang. The Goums-bearded, bemedaled, fierce-eyed North African troops-are savage, close-quarter fighters whose physical courage seems to have no limits. Many of the legionnaires are German-lean, hard-mouthed, blond men in white kepis, their pockets stuffed with grenades. Among them are veterans of Rommel's Afrika Korps. I asked Dupuis how he got on with them...
Last Stand. On that island outpost, the men of order had another chance. For a time after V-J day, a carpetbagging Nationalist regime did great harm on Formosa. When Chiang's Nationalist government arrived, it carried with it from the mainland many of the weaknesses and the faults it had suffered before, but the realization-always bracing to strong men -of having to make a last-ditch stand had purged the Nationalists. Above all they were removed, if only 100 miles across the Straits of Formosa, from the Reds' corrosive power. Even Chiang Kai-shek...