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Warstuffs. Naturally and by conquest, Japan now finds herself in possession of just about all the raw materials she needs for war. Copper is the only apparent shortage, and she has plenty of aluminum to substitute. She has crude oil to spare and soon will have refineries at work. She has enough rubber to sell some to Russia'. She has acquired iron in Kcjrea, Indo-China, Malaya and the Philippines-enough for an annual steel production of something less than 8,000,000 tons; coal in Korea and China; lead and zinc in Burma; bauxite in Malaya...
...nigger in the woodpile' was that the condition for peace which Germany required was that it should keep the dominant place which it had achieved by conquest in Europe and be permitted to project its New Order in Europe and Eastern Europe without interference...
...worldwide, built on the Tripartite Pact with Italy and Japan. His armies swept through the Balkans, across the African desert to Egypt's gates. But the Battle of Britain had been lost, "and in June 1941 the Führer sought security elsewhere than in England's conquest. The Wehrmacht threw its might against Soviet Russia, rolled to Moscow's suburbs before winter fell. Then the tide turned...
...High Command, announcing virtual completion of the bloody conquest in the Stalingrad death pocket, said Russian assault forces had slaughtered 10,000 Germans...
...principles of self-aggrandizement and power which guided that nation at that hour are attacked by the Crimson as they reappear today as the "American century." Rather than using the "white man's burden" and "bringing civilization to the heathen" as mere window-dressing for economic and territorial conquest, the Crimson accepts then today only if they signify understanding guidance for undeveloped nations directed towards their independence and self-rule. Another twenty years passed, and the Crimson watched Woodrow Wilson evolve and put into practice his "new free dom, "its promise of social betterment. Today the Crimson supports...