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...result. Churchill's statement, 'We will never surrender' and that if any portions of the British Isles are subjugated 'we will fight from the New World with our navy,' if carried out and carried out immediately, will end Hitler's ambition for world conquest. It is to be hoped that this plan will not be too long delayed by futile encouragement to fight on. It is conclusively evident that Congress will not authorize intervention in the European...
...political philosophy that this career has hammered out for him is simple. His belief in a final Hitler defeat is no mere Little Englander's faith in muddling through. It comes from his faith that "what force alone constructs has neither permanence nor life." The concept of triumphant conquest he answers with Bacon's epigram: "Rome did not spread upon the world; the world spread upon the Romans." Says he: if the Nazis, the Fascists and the Japanese "had even a glimmering of this profound truth they might become centres of lasting world systems...
Nazi Germany's Blitzkrieg conquest of the Lowlands and France began before dawn May 10. Within 24 hours it pierced the strongly fortified Belgian defense line at Eben Emael, north of Liege. Crashing through the Belgian Ardennes, it encountered and crushed treacherous or woefully incompetent French Ninth Army under General Corap at Sedan on the Meuse...
...cheek-puffing and chest-swelling, his bellicose roars of Roman conquest from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia (TIME, June 17), Dictator Benito Mussolini last week did not hurl his Italian war machine into World War II in German Blitzkrieg style. He had entered the war not to fight so much as to share a victory. Waiting for that time, he naturally edged into action cautiously. He laid some mines, dropped a few bombs, fired a few torpedoes, started a few tanks rolling in the remote Somalilands (see above). His people were not spoiling for a fight and he appeared...
...East of Europe, France's defeat had been discounted a week before it took place. Russia moved with unaccustomed speed to safeguard her frontier against conquest-drunk Germany. Out of the safe she brought charges that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had formed a military alliance against her, promptly moved into one country after another. Half a million men and countless tanks took their places facing East Prussia. In any other week that would have been important news...