Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia. ". . . Put aside your thoughts about Communism, godlessness. This is a fascinating country. The progress Russia has made is astounding. . . . Siberia is an inexhaustible storehouse of strategic war materials. I wish I could tell you. . . . In my judgment Germany will never conquer Russia...
...crucial job of stocky, 42-year-old General Hu, with China's finest troops, to prevent the Japanese from crossing the Yellow River bend near Sian. The front has been stationary there for three years. If the Japanese ever got bridgeheads, they might then find it easy to conquer Chungking from the north...
...blitz failed to conquer Britain, but the Government was criticized for later defeats and for rank inefficiency in war production. But always the surging eloquence and parliamentary skill of Winston Churchill overwhelmed criticism. Always the streamlined John Bull, the 20th-Century St. George, could get a vote of confidence. And always the same chorus rose: the Government's faults were attributed to the stodgy or obstructionist Old School Ties around the Prime Minister, rather than to the Prime Minister himself...
...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...