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...economic pattern of German conquest has been clear and consistent. First came a vast physical looting, in which trains were requisitioned to carry to Germany movable property: machinery, raw materials, food stocks, books, scientific instruments, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, art objects and collections, furniture, park benches, clothing, soap, hardware, garden tools, bed linen, doorknobs. The trains themselves seldom returned...
Denmark, until recently Germany's model conquest, was looted with great finesse and tact, although the end results have been the same: all trade and industry of consequence controlled by Germans. The Danes felt a new lash of the Nazi whip last week, when troops began seizing furniture and household goods to be shipped back for the use of bombed-out German families...
...Conquest of Britain. He went to London, conquered it, then conquered half the cities of Europe. Back in England, he played in Show Boat, The Hairy Ape, Othello. The first night of the London Othello drew 20 curtain calls but, says Robeson, "it wasn't a success to me because I hadn't worked...
...Cuban anthem is a march by Pedro Figueredo. Siboney is a love song about a hypothetical Indian girl of the Siboneyes, a tribe that inhabited Cuba at the time of the Spanish conquest...
Before the three admirals lay the conquest of the world's greatest ocean. For almost two months Pacific Fleet units had been boldly poking into the "hornet's nest," the cluster of Jap bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. Now, as the admirals planned, came word of a raid on the flank of the hornet's nest. A carrier task force, guided by Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery, had shelled and bombed Wake Island, where the Japs finally overran a little band of Marines on Christmas...