Word: conquere
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...defeated. That is what we are up against. Too long have we nurtured the illusion that the Japanese is an insignificant person. . . . The Japanese is physically small, but he is sturdy. . . . He is half starved, but he is Spartan. . . . He is a clever and dangerous enemy. His will to conquer is utterly ruthless, utterly cruel and utterly blind to any of the values which make up our civilization. The only way to stop that will is to destroy it. If you fail-please mark my words-you pass into slavery and all America passes into slavery with you."-Joseph Clark...
...United Nations have more than Rommel and Madagascar to consider. Once the vast Sahara was considered a sufficient barrier to guard the heart of Africa from invasion by forces using Vichy-controlled Tunisia and Algeria as a jumping-off point. Mechanized warfare changed that concept. If the Germans conquer Egypt, they may turn south. French North Africa and Dakar, the continent's westernmost base, in the hands of Axis-enslaved Vichy can never be anything but a danger to the security of Africa as a great crossroads of the United Nations...
...will be in a better position if Rommel extends his control of the southern Mediterranean to Suez. Then the Germans could move forces from southern Europe through Nazi waters, giving them thorough air protection. Then they would stand all too good a chance to by-pass or conquer Cyprus, to pierce the thinly held Syrian shore line by concerted sea, air and land assaults...
Such division in the face of the enemy might seem a setup for Nazi divide-&-conquer tactics. But a prime guerrilla lesson learned in China has been that guerrilla effectiveness is increased if the bands are free to strike where split-second opportunities arise. Thus the Balkan way seemed the best way, and last week that method could point to these accomplishments...
...world's iron; without her, 48%; with Russia, 37% of the bauxite (principally for aluminum); without her, 31%. Last week dispatches reported that the Germans were already using manganese from captured Russian mines. Hitler's Germany, operating with available supplies, has had the power to conquer most of Europe. Add in the raw materials, the factories and captive workers of European Russia, and the result is ominous for the United Nations' immediate future, whatever their long-range potentialities...