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...MacArthur retired from the U.S. Army. To the Philippine Commonwealth he had promised that by 1946 he would make of the islands a Pacific Switzerland that would cost any invader 500,000 men, three years and more than $5,000,000,000 to conquer...
...Divide & Conquer. The Axis grand strategy, conceived in Berlin, is, almost certainly, to divide the forces of its foes and then to conquer each sector separately. Allied strength is maintained by sea power, supported by a string of fortresses stretching around the world: Portsmouth, Gibraltar, Alexandria, Singapore, Hawaii, Panama. The reduction of any of these bastions would cut the Allied life line. The reduction of several would be a catastrophe. There were signs this week that the Axis was planning an assault on one or several...
...extending the war to the U.S. the Axis gambled on a short war. A logical schedule for ending it quickly: 1) divide and conquer the British Empire, while 2) keeping the U.S. on the defensive, and 3) choking off aid to China and Russia; then 4) deal with China and Russia, and finally 5) offer the U.S. the alternative of making peace or fighting alone...
...United States, it suffices to see the sort of human feelings that have developed from it. To all this poltroonery one cannot imagine a better antithesis than the exquisite temperance and the sublime abnegation of the Japanese. Dear, gentle, elegant, heroic Japanese! Be welcomed at our side. We will conquer...
Sept. 18, 1931. Japanese troops, without warning, marched into Mukden, went on to conquer the Chinese province of Manchuria, set up the puppet state of Manchukuo. The Japanese Navy bombarded Shanghai; its Army moved in to kill some 100,000 Chinese...