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Reich Down. Wrote Notestein: "Germany, like her western neighbors, has passed the period in which she could become a dominant world power. [This is due] to the diffusion of technological civilization among peoples that are growing more rapidly. Those who view the prevention of a new German attempt at conquest as the major problem of the peace seem ... to be looking backward. . . . The power and interests of the Soviet Union are an adequate guarantee against that contingency...
...Masaryk was called to occupy, for a year, the chair of Slavonic Studies that Crane had set up at the University of Chicago. (Twenty-two years later, young Masaryk met and married Crane's daughter Frances Crane Leatherbee; they were divorced in 1931.) Thus began Masaryk's conquest of the U.S. for the cause of his people's rebirth. It ended, in 1918, with President Wilson's acceptance of that cause and Masaryk's Declaration of Czechoslovak Independence in Washington. Supported by 1,500,000 Americans of Czechoslovak descent, and by parallel Czechoslovak action...
...American and British peoples cannot forget that Poland was the first nation to stop Hitler's procession of bloodless victories. The Poles determined to fight even though war meant the temporary conquest and enslavement of Poland, because they believed that the justice of Poland's cause and the loyalty of her allies would insure her resurrection...
...Mihiel, the Meuse-Argonne and Belleau Wood three decorations-as well as the hard-boiled anecdotes and swirling, on-the-spot sketches which first appeared as a book in his best-selling Fix Bayonets (1926). A decade ago he summed up his attitude toward Japan's early conquest in China with the prediction that he would die as a Marine Corps Brigadier General-leading a Chinese beachhead attack against the Japs. At his death he was serving in the Amphibious Training Command...
...time Japan's swift conquest of the Pacific had ended this unrealistic dream, a new start had been made. In September 1939, the ist Marine Brigade started an amphibious training program. That was the month Marine Commandant Thomas Holcomb sent his assistant, Brigadier General Holland Smith, to take command. Tommy Holcomb had picked the right...