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...speech ("The watchword is only one, categoric and binding: CONQUER!") Mussolini said Italy's continental objectives would be sought first. maritime ones later. This turned all eyes toward expected action on the French Riviera and Alpine border-Nice and Savoy. But last week when France gave up, all the Italians had to do was march...
...already wings over and enflames hearts from the Alps to the Indian Ocean: conquer...
Everybody Satisfied. Only two M.P.s spoke against the Emergency Powers Defense Bill, extremist Laborite David Kirkwood and Communist William Gallacher, who called it "deliberate attempt on the part of the ruling class to conquer the working class." Cracked back orthodox Laborite David Gilbert Logan at Red Willie, "It is about time that a voice like yours was silenced under Emergency Powers." Liberal Sir Richard Acland said he specifically hoped to see the Government "sending to the homes of people like myself and taking away valuable picture's, such as portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds and other Old Masters...
...Conquer or Die." While the French fought north of Laon and St. Quentin with herds of tanks and massed 75s (see p. 25) to stem the German swing-the general commanding the French II Army led its tank counterattack in person-history stood still for France and Great Britain. The world's battle was to decide whether Adolf Hitler's apocalypse really showed him the future of Western civilization "for the next 1,000 years." At least 80 German infantry divisions were in it and ten of twelve Nazi mechanized divisions. At least 5,000 planes with crosses...
...always in the critical hours of our history, the watchword today is 'Conquer or die!' We must conquer...