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Southward from the Celebes Sea, toward Java and the rich oil wells of Balikpapan, the Jap drove last week. All had gone his way up to then in the Dutch Indies; nowhere had he been defeated in his Pacific battleground. Before him now was the final conquest of the Indies, perhaps a final grip on the Pacific world...
...first sign that the Axis conquest would be different in Yugoslavia came when children locked themselves into their schoolrooms, scrawled anti-Nazi slogans on the blackboards. Then in a swift overnight coup d'état, General Simovich seized control of the Government, announced that Yugoslavia would defy the Axis...
...city fell. Ling's village endured the plunder of their own retreating army, and prepared to meet the enemy. They decided to make ready tea and small cakes and fruits, and courteously to welcome the invaders outside their village, "and thus in decency and honor the conquest would take place...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt's Office of Facts and Figures, reporting to the nation on 18 months of defense effort, revealed tonight that in 1942 this country will produce as many planes and tanks "as Hitler did in all the years before 1939 when he was preparing for world conquest...
...educated Tagalogs and Visayans-for all the Filipinos who learn English, admire U.S. ways, vote for President Quezon, argue about independence, revere the memory of José Rizal, whose pulse was normal as he faced a Spanish firing squad-for these the Japanese conquest was the unbelievable crisis of their destiny as a people. For the individual it meant facing a situation for which nothing in his education or history had prepared...