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...Strengthen the Anglo-Soviet alliance. . . . The trade union official who said 'Let the strike continue was not helping the workers. Strikes in this situation are ... helping the Fascists to build the gallows and dig the sandpits in which they execute the cream of the working class whenever they conquer a country...
Country's Man. "Let them come," the Gissimo said in the summer of 1940, when Chungking morale reached an all-war low, "let them drive me back into Tibet. In five years I will be back here and I will conquer all China again...
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...