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...went along, giving a simple out line of the course of world events since 1931-the aggressions of Japan, Italy, Germany. Said Mr. Hull: "Mankind is today face to face, not with regional wars or isolated conflicts, but with an organized, ruthless and implacable movement of steadily expanding conquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Matter of Faith | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...most serious question today for this country is whether the control of the high seas shall pass into the hands of powers conquest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Matter of Faith | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

CARIO, FRIDAY-Haile Selassie, ruler of Ethiopia, who was ousted by the Italian conquest, entered his country Jan. 15 and is leading a revolt against the Italians with British cooperation, it was announced officially early today...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 1/24/1941 | See Source »

...difficult to fathom their mental processes. War, obviously, is a powerful stimulant to collective action under government leadership for a common purpose. The conquest of poverty requires similar action. Why not support the war, they reason, and utilize its mechanisms for purposes of social justice once the conflict is over, or even while it is still going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD INAUGURAL | 1/22/1941 | See Source »

...well have a New Deal end. But at the moment the prospects for progress are not bright. It is possible to argue that Hitler's defeat is essential to the political and military security of the United States-and if that were clearly the case, his conquest, even by actual belligerency, would come first. But to assert, as the President and his Liberals are doing, that War and Social Progress go hand in hand, is either dangerous self-hypnosis or deliberate deception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD INAUGURAL | 1/22/1941 | See Source »

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