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Nash went on to state that history has shown that a strong world government is the only means for ending continual wars. "The batting average is with us" he said, as he refered to the historic struggle by nations of world conquest...
...this position, Louis Johnson apparently won JCS Chairman Omar Bradley-a conquest which caused one Administration official to remark: "My God, the town is upside down. Even Leon Keyserling is talking about more divisions, while General Bradley is talking about how much the economy can stand...
...Should Formosa fall into the hands of a hostile power, [it] would again be fully exploited as the means to breach and neutralize our Western Pacific defense system, and mount a war of conquest against the free nations of the Pacific basin...
...Yangtze threatened to flood Hankow, Mayor Wu conscripted 30,000 coolies to repair a broken dike, trained machine guns on them to keep them from quitting; for 13 days & nights he stayed atop the dike directing their work. Floods more terrible than the Yangtze were threatening China. The Japanese conquest forced Chiang's armies back into the interior. On the morning of Mayor Wu's 35th birthday, Oct. 25, 1938, Hankow, then Chiang's center of resistance, fell to the Japanese...
Like everyone else, Annapolis-trained Zacharias is aware that Russia is committed to world domination, that Stalin is letting his Communist parties throughout the world carry the ball for him, that patterns of conquest have been laid down for most of the world's areas. Unlike most nowadays, he thinks that a Truman-Stalin talk "can settle the grave controversies between the U.S.S.R...