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...Conquistador, an epic of Cortes' conquest of Mexico...
...people of Europe, preoccupied with news as near at hand as hunger and cold, Singapore seemed far away. But Singapore was cut from the same pattern of conquest with which the people of Europe had become sickeningly familiar, and there were men in Europe last week who could have told the people of Britain and the U.S. what it means to be conquered-what it costs in brutalization and degradation, what man-made famine is like, what it is to be regarded as slaves of a Herrenvolk. France after 1871 and Germany after 1918 were not like Europe last week...
...Europe one penalty of conquest is mass deportation to labor camps. Now working in Germany are some 2,500,000 imported workers, of which nearly 20% are women. Smuggled reports from Germany last week said that 150 such workers had been executed for complaining about long hours and harsh treatment, for undermining the allegiance of German workers...
...papers, under banner spreads, exult over each tiny counterstab by MacArthur or the Dutch fleet. Not so long ago, Goebbels was paying French newspapermen lucratively for the same type of publicity that the American press is now providing free of charge. His point was, on the eve of their conquest, to lull the French public into the false security of a rumored German conflict with Russia...
...Gestapo agents and Ovra agents and OGPU agents, or men who were at least said to be agents; amiable Gauleiters and hardheaded economic experts; distinguished Rumanian appeasers and mink-clad German and Austrian beauties who were paid to keep them happy. ... As the drama of bloodless German conquest later on drew to its bitter end, the old order dropped out of the play. Then wild-eyed greenshirt dignitaries, catapulted into power from a concentration camp, would make their debut in the lobby. Hopeful Axis businessmen would swarm here to buy themselves a Jewish department store or a mine for practically...