Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus last week did the first big contingent of U.S. troops land in the European war zone-in Northern Ireland. Tough, reticent Major General Russell P. Hartle's men were officially "outpost troops," no A.E.F. But, in quarters long since built by U.S. civilian engineers and contractors, these troops were on a route which the Germans might take to invade Britain. And Northern Ireland may some day be a take-off point for continental invasion...
...last report from the men who went down fighting two days later. Released last week by the Navy at Washington, it added new fuel to the imperishable flame of their heroism. It also proved that the Jap had had to pay a bitter price for the capture of the outpost and its thin line of defenders...
...Parliament three British M.P.s from three different standpoints viewed with alarm the emergence of the U.S. as Britain's No. 1 Ally: > Britain would have to choose, said Liberal Edgar Granville, whether she should become "a western outpost of totalitarian Europe or the eastern outpost of an American-controlled civilization." Russia, he felt, was Britain's No. 1. Ally. ". . . It is the Russian cockerel which has saved the necks of the few chickens." > Conservative Sir Archibald Southby, apparently giddy with Lend-Lease, said: "It might have been better if the United States had augmented the defenses of those...
During the interim between the two illustrated talks, Maynard Miller '43, president of the Club, and Andrew Kauffman '43, vice-president, revealed plans for a Club bulletin and for some needed repair work on Spur Cabin, the Club's outpost in the White Mountains...
...found himself with some strange bedfellows in his isolationist bed: some of them had Communist whiskers. He did not care. He remained steadfastly convinced that the Soviet Union's western border, whose defenses he scoffed at, was the last outpost of white supremacy. Even if England went down, .he was confident that the U.S. could get along fine with Hitler's New Order. The New Order, he felt, was riding the triumphant wave of the future...