Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today Draja Mihailovich seems legendary, but he is a legend with a big basis in fact: the fact that he has kept from five to ten Nazi divisions at a time fighting to conquer the country which they destroyed twelve long months...
...matter of fact, the Belgian Congo is at war, under the general direction of the Belgian Government in Exile in London, with the Axis, and so much so that Belgian Congo forces have helped the British in every possible manner to conquer Ethiopia, taking prisoner many thousands of Italian troops and some Italian generals. Moreover, only a few days ago, the Governor General of the Belgian Congo urged Congo production of raw materials to be speeded up to such an extent that, very soon, that production will make good some of the losses sustained by the Allies in the South...
...closer cooperation with the U.S., the status of Turkey had changed as the warring nations showed strength or weakness. "We are convinced," said Foreign Minister Saracoglu, "that our neutrality is useful to all the belligerents." The danger always lay in Turkey's geographical position. Hitler must either conquer or by-pass her on any thirsty march toward the oil fields of the Russian Caucasus or of Iraq and Iran...
...long selfish interests which, knowingly or not, have worked in complete scorn of the national will. Looking at the need as a whole, it is up to the Governors and State legislatures to submerge provincial whims and local profits, for at least the duration, by eliminating their "divide and conquer" laws...
...would help to unite India for her own defense. And he gave an eloquent argument for that unity. Said Sir Stafford: "The basic philosophy of the Japanese forces, as of their German counterparts, is that they, as a superior race, have the right to enslave all whom they can conquer. I have seen and heard of the exploits of the Nazis . . . and I know that none but the most diseased imagination could ever conjure up the ghastly and sadistic horrors which these barbarians have made a reality...