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...Said Colonial Secretary Lord Cranborne: "If the Indian leaders would get together and devise some scheme which would be satisfactory to all, the Indian problem would be satisfactorily solved." Said Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax: "We are anxious and prepared to do our part, but . . . they first must conquer the fundamental difficulty, that of unification between the Hindu and Moslem parties...
...Nazis and the Japanese is to separate the United States, Britain, China and Russia, and to isolate them one from another, so that each will be surrounded and cut off from sources of supplies and reinforcements. It is the old familiar Axis policy of 'Divide and Conquer...
...Roosevelt's message was built about the theme that Axis propagandists were trying to destroy confidence of the Allied nations in each other while Axis armies seek to "divide and conquer...
...Germans are still fighting an inconclusive campaign with hard-bitten Chetniks in the Serbian mountains. The Italians last week replaced a general in their Army of Occupation who had failed to conquer the Yugoslav guerrillas. A strict curfew suddenly clamped on Belgrade indicated that the Serbian patriots were operating even in the capital...
...swept through Poland. In 1940 he conquered all the strongholds of Western Europe. In 1941 he conquered Greece and Crete-and Libya for a time. But in 1941 he tackled Russia, failed for the first time to conquer promptly and instead involved Germany in an exhausting war-a war whose strain has shaken Germany to the core and seriously undermined her chances for ultimate victory...