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Trim, broad-faced Erwin Eugen Johannes Rommel rose with Hitler from the street brawls of pre-Nazi Germany. He rocketed upward with the National Socialists through the conquest of Germany, the conquest of Europe, the conquest of North Africa, almost to the conquest of Egypt...
...that all. Through eastern China's vitals, the armored worms of Japanese conquest gnawed greedily. Disintegration was apparently inevitable. When it came, it would take with it the system of air bases from which China once hoped to see U.S. and native airmen fly to beat down the defenses of .Formosa, hack deep into Japan's vital seaborne traffic...
...true but good seemed to come from everywhere - even the telephone. By dialing INF-1, Parisians could hear a recorded summary of world and local news, brought up to date every hour. Underground news papers which had hidden in cellars and garrets came out in the sun. Some pre-conquest papers, including Figaro and Ce Soir, were revived. Many great names of the prewar French press were gone, the papers that had either sold out or submitted to the conqueror: Le Matin, Paris Soir, Le Temps, L'Oeuvre, Le Petit Parisien, forcibly taken over by the Germans...
...most celebrated Gothic monument in Christendom had survived four years of German conquest and, last week, the even greater dangers of liberation. After six German snipers had been driven from its north tower, Chartres Cathedral was found to be almost untouched...
...they did at the U-boat bases, the Americans kept on pounding, aware of the pleasant fact that conquest was only a matter of time and the unpleasant fact that it would be a matter of casualties...