Word: conquests
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...blatts at Hoover sound like cheers. The fury of Canada and England reflected the Senate cloakroom bitterness; finally Nevada's Key Pittman exploded: "Colonel Lindbergh's statement . . . encourages the ideology of the totalitarian governments and is subject to the construction that he approves of their brutal conquest of democratic countries through war. . . ." Messrs. Hoover & Lindbergh retired to their corner, without seconds...
...aggressor, aiming at conquest, the complete overthrow of the opposing forces and the occupation of the opponent's territory may be necessary to his success. But not to ours. Our object is fulfilled if we can convince the enemy that he cannot conquer...
Every leader knows that to fight a war, whether for conquest or in self-defense, he must give the young men of his nation a cause so good and just that they are willing to be ripped apart by shrapnel, choked by gas, gored by bayonets without losing the will to fight...
...real Rin-Tin-Tin, a trained police dog, had indeed enlisted with his master in the French Army. Paris-Mondial spent much air time twitting Germany on the Moscow deal, hinting at a sort of diplomatic cuckoldry with the Soviets reaping the joys of Germany's conquest...
...fight ensued at Molodeczno, rail junction between Wilno and Minsk. Elsewhere opposition was nominal or minus. Refugees over the Rumanian border described the new invaders as traveling peaceably along the same Ukrainian roads as the fugitive Poles. It was a mass movement of occupation rather than of conquest, although performed the same way as the crashing German onslaught-mechanized forces piercing far ahead, infantry on slower trucks bringing up the rear. Conjunction of the west-moving Russian horde with the east-flowing Germans was awaited tensely. Would they embrace each other? Or would they quarrel over their prey? The answer...