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...long selfish interests which, knowingly or not, have worked in complete scorn of the national will. Looking at the need as a whole, it is up to the Governors and State legislatures to submerge provincial whims and local profits, for at least the duration, by eliminating their "divide and conquer" laws...
...plain truth is that Mr. Jones fell down rather badly on the job, . . . The proof of an official's worth to his country lies in his ability to meet and conquer the kind of obstacles of which Mr. Jones complains...
...would help to unite India for her own defense. And he gave an eloquent argument for that unity. Said Sir Stafford: "The basic philosophy of the Japanese forces, as of their German counterparts, is that they, as a superior race, have the right to enslave all whom they can conquer. I have seen and heard of the exploits of the Nazis . . . and I know that none but the most diseased imagination could ever conjure up the ghastly and sadistic horrors which these barbarians have made a reality...
Untested. To reach these modern treasures, without warring on Turkey, the Axis must strike back from Rhodes and other Dodecanese islands and either conquer Cyprus or by-pass it. In a by-pass the normally confused Italian navy would be wide open to flank attacks. To conquer Cyprus, the Axis planes would be farther away (200 miles) from land bases than in last year's attack on Crete. Even if British fighter planes were chased off Cyprus bases, there were other fields only 66 miles away on the Syrian mainland...
...Hitler (in 1920)-"Today brute force can conquer only by assuming a socialist, a revolutionary cloak. Never can Germany win a war if England is fighting actively on the opposing side. Only by ideologically destroying it from within can Germany conquer Europe. By brute force alone-never...