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...Seoul and Peiping, and the jelly-spined attitude of America's "diplomats" (sic) allows Russia to dare to plot still other grabs and double-faced deals. . . . Now, in 1946, is the time to give Stalin, Molotov & Co. to understand that this nation will tolerate no ambitions of world conquest...
Perhaps the most tragic irony in the whole history of the Hitler era was that he boldly announced his plans of conquest, while the rest of the world stood by, either unbelieving or too morally bankrupt to act. It is incredible that only one year after the conclusion of the bloodiest war in history, the United States, through the Act of Chapultepee, stands in quasi-alliance with the potentially great Fascist power of the next generation, while at the same time the Soviet Union enters upon diplomatic relations with that power. Whatever the decisions of the Paris conference, so long...
...also act in the cine; when do you find time to do your spying?" Weekending in summery Cuernavaca, Hilda was called on by the town police. Hotel servants had dug out of her luggage suspicious accounts of troop movements: notes from her university course on Cortés' conquest of Mexico...
...lands she had conquered Russia had brought not only the sword but the salvage crew and empty freight train. These instruments of conquest, like the sword, could summon up bitter resistance. Russia's eagerness to grab industrial equipment might get in the way of her more important program of political expansion. And Russia, wolfing her conquests in eastern Europe and Manchuria, hungered for still more that was outside the boardinghouse reach of the Red Army...
...Good dough without yeast." Wrote he in the Paris Liberation: "American society is tough, commanded by the tough law of profit, by the even tougher law of the struggle for existence, reducing man either to a machine or to a nervous being straining simultaneously for the conquest of comfort and for self-defense...