Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puzzled, torn at heart was George Norris, and he told the Senate why: "Conscription is contrary to the spirit of human freedom ... in time it will ruin democracy." Yet: "I concede that they [the dictators] would like to conquer the U. S. . . ." Yet again: he would rather "see the end come and cross the river into all eternity," than see one-half of the U. S. toiling and sweating to support the other half under arms. He could concede that conscription was "the fair way to raise an army." But he could not support conscription in peacetime, even...
...been many who believed the German propagandists who told them they could buy peace with Germany. There had been those who believed that Hitler would be satisfied after the occupation of the Saar, after Austria, after Czecho-Slovakia. "There are also Americans who argue that if Hitler should conquer Great Britain he would be content to stop there, and that the United States would be able to cooperate happily with the Hitler Empire of Europe. To believe this is to misunderstand the entire nature of the Nazi system. . . . Were Germany to try to resume the ways of peace, the military...
Smashing the British was these men's job, and their aerial Trafalgar marked an epoch in military history. The argument whether air fleets can conquer sea fleets has not been settled and may never be. But last week in the Battle of Britain, neither Germans nor Britons fooled themselves: mastery of the air was mastery...
...German generals are deliberately prolonging the enervating suspense. They want to conquer London by isolating it from the nearby arteries which every morning unload in Covent Garden, in Billingsgate and on the docks tons and tons of foodstuffs that London does not produce and without which the 7,000,000 inhabitants of the city could not resist one month...
Every day's delay thus gained, every obstacle placed before it, gave added time for Britain's preparation of home defense against invasion. For no Briton doubted that only by coming and getting them could Germany conquer the British. And by last week the last great democracy of Europe was truly an "island fortress" ringed by air and naval power, manned by 1,500,000 British soldiers, two Canadian divisions, several battalions of Australians and New Zealanders, 30,000 Polish, French and Czech troops. Last week with the calling of 34-year-olds, 4,100,000 Britons were...