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...just love to play those Princeton boys," said Dick Harlow two years ago, fresh from a convincing 26 to 7 conquest over the Tigers in Soldiers Field. The mouse-trap offense worked to perfection this afternoon...
...thirds of her iron ore and 85% of her copper had to be imported. To feed her highly-developed smelters at Leipzig, Breslau, etc., she had little or no bauxite (aluminum ore), antimony, tin or the critical ferro-alloy metals: molybdenum, tungsten, chrome, nickel. The map shows how conquest enlarged her resources. Fine lines show her post-Versailles boundaries, the heavy line her holdings at the end of year I of World...
...crack British troops. Once having silenced Hong Kong, Surabaya and Amboina, the Japanese Fleet might swing around the east side of Borneo-trusting to distance and superior force to keep off the British from Singapore-and force a Borneo landing, would even then have only a fair start to conquest of the Indies. And if the U. S. took a hand the Japanese would also have to take the U. S. base at Cavite, reduce its island fortress at Corregidor, knock out 11,000 U. S. Regulars and 20,000 soldiers of General Douglas MacArthur's new native army...
Because these resolute Americans, controlling vital news outlets from the unique and unmanageable city-state of Shanghai, stand square in the road of Japanese conquest. For Japan must control the mind and morale of its subject peoples, must direct world-thinking the Japanese way, if it is ever to realize the dream of a "Greater East Asia"--domination of China, India, the Indo-Chinese peninsula, and all the East Indies including the Philippines...
...playing in this area. More important it would keep the other dictators out of the Mediterranean which the Italians like possessively to call Mare Nostrum. If Mussolini took Bulgaria he would also have to have the port of Dedeagach on the Aegean Sea to give him access to his conquest without going into the Black...