Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reliable sources from the Stronghold of Journalism indicated that a mass migration from South Hadley to Cambridge might be expected over the weekend if the transporting editors could find South Hadley...
...most delicate balance of classes and their conflicting interests; appeasement was the symptom that this balance had become unbalanced. Among British Tories, appeasement took the form of pro-Nazi laissez faire. Among Laborites appeasement took the form of do-nothing pacifism. "The House of Lords," says Kraus, ". . . was . . . the stronghold of pro-Nazi sympathies-with the Labor Lords, in their pacifism, closely allied with Fascist-minded peers." Britons were afraid even to diagnose the disease of which the great General-Strike of 1926 and Munich were cognate symptoms. Hitler made the diagnosis, calculated his tactics with clinical precision. But Hitler...
When French Indo-China last week became Japanese Indo-China (see p. 21) the strategic map of southeastern Asia was redrawn. Japan had gained another stronghold on the South China...
...Ethiopia the British have found that winning a campaign does not necessarily mean finishing it. The Italians have held out in isolated outposts, so as to pin down sizable British forces. Addis Ababa fell on April 6. Last week, twelve weeks later, the British took the stronghold of Jimma with 8,000 prisoners, including eleven generals. Still to be cleaned up: an area in the north, near Lake Tana, where there are 10,000 white Italians; two areas in the south, where there are altogether...
...Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, isolationism's stronghold, told the Chicago Tribune that he supported the President's foreign policy all the way. Said Republican Stassen: "In this country there can be only one foreign policy at one time. ... I believe we must give united support ... to the established foreign policy of the Federal Government...