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...Manila's Nichols Field, where the scars of conquest and liberation alike were abundantly evident, Kawabe was first out of the plane. He strode toward rusty-haired, slim Colonel Sidney F. Mashbir and saluted. Mashbir returned the salute...
August: The marines landed on Guadalcanal to retake the Jap's southernmost conquest...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, who made the decision. Not until week's end did MacArthur's headquarters proclaim: the Ryukyus, with the Philippines, "form a great semicircular base from which a mighty invasion force is being forged under the primary responsibility of General MacArthur for the final conquest of Japan...
...forget that we are fighting for peace and for the welfare of mankind. We are not fighting for conquest. There is not one piece of territory or one thing of a monetary nature that we want out of this war. We want peace and prosperity for the world as a whole...
...territory was named Rhodesia, in honor of the man who had planned its conquest. Consumptive son of an English parson, Cecil John Rhodes had come to South Africa for his health, carrying nothing but a Greek lexicon. At first, he commuted between Oxford and Cape Town; he took his seat in the Cape Parliament after he graduated from Oriel College. In Kimberley he built De Beers & Co., history's largest diamond monopoly, and made himself the richest man in the world. But he continued to live in a tin shack and to dream of the uses to which...