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Then the Caudillo abandoned humility for a boast. "Only two countries in the world know where they are going," he said. "They are Spain and Russia." Russia's goal was world conquest; Franco's own (he explained later) was to provide three shirts for every Spanish peasant...
...Whatever it was, he now concludes that Europe's present tension is due largely to the U.S.'s failure to insist on a "democratic revolution" over there, via the Two-Way Passage idea or something like it. His summary of what did happen: Churchill, symbolizing "Conquest" rather than "Liberation," was able to "seduce" F.D.R. into a "counterrevolutionary foreign policy" by drumming up the dangers of the U.S.S.R. Author Adamic himself sees the U.S.S.R. as no particular danger to anyone. He considers it the source of "a new dynamism toward general welfare" rather than of the old dynamism...
...Holy City's sun-baked walls and domes had dominated the ages. Doomed to repeated conquest, it had heard the clatter of Egyptian cavalry, the rattle of Persian scythe-wheeled chariots, had known Assyrian and Babylonian, the Macedonian phalanx and the Roman legion, Seleucid and Seljuk, Crusader, Saracen and Ottoman Turk. One conqueror supplanted the other, or declined to impotent passivity. But Jerusalem still remained, permanent in the perspective of history, as the city sometimes appears in a sudden lifting of the haze, crowning Zion...
...CONQUEST OF THE MISSOURI (458)-Joseph Mills Hanson-Murray Hill...
...master and pilot of the steamer Far West was oldtime Missouri Riverman Grant Marsh, contemporary and sometime shipmate of Mississippi Riverman Mark Twain. Author Joseph Mills Hanson, now 70, knew Marsh in his latter years, talked to him at length about his adventures, wrote The Conquest of the Missouri as a Marsh biography. But in effect it is a history of Missouri steam-boating-notably of the wood-burning sternwheelers that hauled passengers and freight along the empty distances of that "rainwater creek," the Upper Missouri, in the 1860s...