Word: conquests
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...conquest of Britain, either this year or later. That is Germany...
...conquest of Egypt and Palestine. That is Italy...
...sense, the President is turning over to a warring power a goodly portion of the United States Navy. . . . We get in exchange leases on British possessions in this Hemisphere-but only leases. What good will these leases be if Hitler should acquire title to these islands by right of conquest? ... Of all sucker real-estate deals in history, this is the worst, and the President of the United States is the sucker. ... If Roosevelt gets away with this, we may as well say good-by to our liberties and make up our mind that henceforth we live under a dictatorship...
After the conquest of Norway, Ger many planned to sweep the whole dynasty of King Haakon from the throne. But the King and Crown Prince escaped to Britain, the Crown Princess and the royal grand children to Sweden. Norway's quisling, Major Vidkun Quisling, demanded that King Haakon renounce the crown for him self and his descendants. Haakon politely refused. Germany intrigued to get Crown Prince Olav to replace his father on the throne, but Olav would have none of it. Then Crown Princess Martha in Sweden was offered a regency in the name of her son, Prince Harald...
...TIME quite agrees that there should be no hysteria, but TIME cannot point out that the Atlantic "is still a barrier to conquest." It never has been. In colonial times it was crossed by British and French Armies. In 1814-15 a British expedition took Washington, fought in Louisiana. In 1863 a French Army entered Mexico City, set up an empire. In 1917-18 a U. S. Army crossed the Atlantic in the opposite direction. The only barrier there has ever been in the Atlantic has been a fleet that could control the ocean (and nowadays an adequate air force...