Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When World War I broke out, the Assembly of the Union of South Africa voted unenthusiastically to join on Britain's side -so unenthusiastically that there was a short, angry civil war before South Africa was able to turn on its German neighbor, South West Africa, and conquer it. After the War national lines were sharper than ever. The rise of the Hitler regime in Germany was reflected in South Africa by the outcropping of Nazi cells from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Last April it was rumored the Nazis were ready to seize South West Africa...
...changing its course. The solitary sandwich man bearing a banner reading "Churchill" who bumped into Prime Minister Chamberlain on his way to Parliament, the newspaper articles written by journalists who admired his style, the exasperated middle class outraged at too much muddling-these scarcely loomed big enough to conquer Mr. Chamberlain's hostility, the lack of confidence of the people. Bigger news was that last week's staggering events clarified in a stroke Churchill's concept of the Empire, made understandable what had been puzzling and contradictory about...
...Furor imprisoned as an impostor, masquerading Charlie is involved by his air minister, Herring, in an aggressive campaign to humble the neighboring State of Vanilla. It is to the people of Vanilla, soon humbled, that old Pantymimist Chaplin makes his first big speech: "I don't want to conquer anybody. I want to do good by everybody. Because-because this is a big world, and there's plenty of room for all of us in it. Yes. Even for dictators. Even for Hinkle! Hinkle. He wants to do right. He's just full of hate and bitterness...
...Western (Christian) Civilization we still have left the conception of heroism based on the Arthurian Cycle. Mothers still tell their children tales of the strong and the brave who conquer the wicked, cruel giant or dragon or witch. It seems a little too much to swallow when St. George deliberately goes up to the Dragon to be decorated...
...that if that is my decision a general war will result. If so, so much the worse. I do not believe that we can meet, in the future, circumstances much more favorable than those that exist today. I hold that Germany, Italy and Japan are in a position to conquer today all their enemies combined. The hour, therefore, has sounded to take the supreme risk...