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...Near East (TIME, Sept. 30). It now has only to conquer its Living Spaces. Logical strategy of the Axis would be to continue hammering at Britain, simultaneously to drive toward the Near East, where are supplies of oil which Germany and Italy need to fight a long world war. Conquest of the Near East would further two other objectives: 1) force the Suez gateway to the Mediterranean; 2) flank Russia on the south. As Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini and Foreign Ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Galeazzo Ciano finished a luncheon of lobster salad, saluted one another and went...
...Germany cannot be in prime condition to fight wars of conquest until she is blockade-proof. To be blockade-proof she needs adequate supplies of food for her people and oil for her machines. She did not have those things when World War II began and all her conquests of 1940 have not won them for her. The logic of conquest is that at the first convenient opportunity Hitler must turn to get them, turn southeast into the granary of Europe...
...Ichijo was the Federation to Campaign Against Christian Organizations, whose doctrine, an unintended caricature of Nazi race-&-soil theories, affirms: "Japan is a land of gods. . . . Christianity offers a heaven of illusion and forces men to believe in Jesus Christ in the interests of the Jewish policy of world conquest. Such a belief would destroy Japan's policy. . . . Christianity, a device of Jewish origin which is encroaching on the Japanese spirit, must be eliminated...
...City for Conquest (Warner). With the help of Thornton Wilder, Hollywood gratefully learned a new way to spin a yarn. In Our Town, cinematized last spring, wise-eyed Frank Craven appeared on the screen as a rustic sage drawling philosophic comments on the passing events...
...City for Conquest, like We Who Are Young (TIME, Sept. 30), borrows this technique to point up the clamoring struggle for existence which supposedly typifies Manhattan. This time Philosopher Craven wears a beard and the shaggy rags of a stumblebum, wanders in and out of the lives of the characters, seeing all, knowing all, interpreting...