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...hotel suite. He called in Sumner Welles. To Under Secretary Welles he gave the task of drafting a statement that would make clear to the U.S. the implications of Hitler's move: the magnitude of Hitler's vision of his world, the scope of his dreams of conquest, the threat to the U.S. proved even by the German attack on Russia...
Ringing Words. It was a message fairly bristling with indignant phrases, condemning the German Government in scornful terms for last month's "ruthless sinking" of the freighter Robin Moor. The President spoke of "'the act of an international outlaw . . . policy of frightfulness and intimidation . . . conquest based upon lawlessness and terror on land and piracy on the sea. . . ." But the message did not call for a declaration of war. It did not call for any specific action...
Last week, as Benito Mussolini addressed his obediently enthusiastic Chamber of Fasces and Corporations in Rome, the people of Italy herded around their radios had every reason to be slightly giddy. For Italy's most ruinous year had become, in dizzy oratorical retrospect, a vista of conquest...
Second Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat, 22, of the Royal Bombay Sappers, was told, one day during the British conquest of Ethiopia, to clear a road of Italian mines. The Italians had sown the dangerous metallic seeds as prodigally as some hardy grain. In one stretch of four miles Lieut. Bhagat dug up 14 separate mine fields each containing 300 mines spread over 250 yards on each side of the road...
...years before Bismarck became Chancellor. Bismarck soon weaned him away from his none-too-doting parents, persuaded his Emperor-Grandfather to make him a Lieutenant of Infantry at the age of ten. Bismarck had him riding a horse at twelve in the victory parade when Wilhelm I celebrated the conquest of France...