Word: conqueror
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eyes turned to that other great pacifist, Benito Mussolini. The last chapter ended with II Duce dangling over the cliff, hanging on to neutrality, saying nothing. When would he rouse himself from the meditation into which the mightiest events of his time appeared to have plunged him? Always dynamic, conqueror of many an Ethiopian and Albanian, utterly fearless in denouncing the Masons, a great fellow for jumping over bayonets at Fascist parties (or, better still, having his subordinates do it) how would II Duce measure up to the strain...
Adolf to Joseph. The Führer, as a conqueror who had smashed the Polish State in 18 days, turned at Danzig to reassure Joseph Stalin and pave the way for the military partition of Poland by friendly Nazis and Reds (see p. 29). "I am happy now ... to refute . . . British statesmen who continually maintain that Germany intends to dominate Europe to the Ural Mountains. . . . Now, gentlemen of the British Empire, Germany's aims are very limited. We have discussed the matter with Russia . . . and if you are of the opinion that we might come to a conflict...
...born, some penetrating glimpses of Field Marshal Hermann Goring, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and State Secretary Baron Ernst von Weizsdcker, a modest reflection of Sir Nevile's own shrewdness, courage and humor, and above all a never-to-be-forgotten firsthand sketch of Hitler the conqueror, screamer, wizard, fox, weird...
...forms, with Britain, France and Poland lining up against Germany, Italy and Spain, nearly every historical theatre of battle in Europe might be ultimately involved. Because of the airplane, some quite unhistoric theatres might be involved as well. London, for example, has been safe from assault since William the Conqueror crossed the English Channel in 1066. In the World War air raids on London frightened a few shopkeepers, killed about 5,000, served chiefly to keep 300-odd British planes at home for defense instead of fighting in France...
...Chinese, however, are by turns unbelievably bold and unbelievably ingenious in the ways of sabotaging the would be conqueror. They assassinate puppet officials. Throughout 150,000 square miles of territory in the rear of the Japanese Army they have organized "self-defense" governments. Some 75,000,000 people, almost as many as lived in pre-Munich Germany, help the Cooperative Committees and the Mobilization Committee of these governments. Boys between 14 and 16 years of age act as a special messenger service; farmers cooperate by cutting ditches and felling trees across roads to impede Japanese troop movements...