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Italy's other conquest of the week fell even more quietly. As Germany without fuss took what she wanted of Slovenia, Rome announced with nourishes that it had "annexed" the Slovene border city of Ljubljana, set up an "autonomous province of Ljubljana." The Romans pulled out of there in the Fifth Century...
...week fluttered not only the Nazi swastika but also the azure-&-white banner of Greece. "An elegant expression that we honor Greece," declared a German correspondent in Athens. But beneath the twin emblems the Nazis energetically concerned themselves not so much with honor as with the business of practical conquest...
...been consternation in the anti-war camp. The ranks of the faithful have been serried by the honeyed arguments which present the War To Come as an exciting adventure. The roscate prospect of a quick and decisive victory over Japan and a paralysis of Germany by a painless conquest has made a good interventionist out of many a former advocate of peace...
...indigenous as Fujiyama, might make Japan more Christian than foreign missions ever succeeded in doing. Japanese delegates had made the point that Christianity flourished in 16th-Century Japan after the evangelism of St. Francis Xavier, when the authorities suspected that it might be preparing the way for the conquest of Japan by European countries as the Philippine Islands had been conquered. For more than two centuries, Christians were forbidden to enter Japan on pain of death. With Japanese at the helm of the church, the political threat to Christianity is minimized...
...other hand it is by no means certain that Germany intends ultimately to try to crown her unsubtle dominion abroad by conquest of the United States. Military authorities say that an invasion of the continental United States by any combination of powers now foreseeable is not possible. Such an attempt would transfer to our enemies all those difficulties of distance, geography, transportation and morale which America will face if we attempt to carry on total war in Africa or the China...