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...time had not yet come when Franklin Roosevelt could pity Hitler but on that Sunday morning he had no need to envy the German dictator. Even if Germany was to conquer Russia with ease-as it might-Hitler now had to fight for Russia's resources-to fight for necessary resources which up to that moment the world had believed Germany could obtain without fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: War of the Dinosaurs | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...decisive gamble of my life. . . . But it will never stop me from firmly retracing my steps and attacking Russia when my aims in the West have been achieved. . . . We must win the victory of German race-consciousness over the masses eternally fated to serve and obey. We alone can conquer the great continental space, and it will be done by us alone, not through a pact with Moscow. We shall take this struggle upon us. It will open to us the door to permanent mastery of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: World or Ruin | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Getting religion twelve years ago, Inayatullah went native with a bang. He became Allama Mashriqi, "The Sage of the East," began preaching resistance to the British as a starter. The Spadecarriers now sport a grandiloquent motto: "To establish hegemony over the world, to become rulers once again, and to conquer the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Spadecarners | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Unproved are recurrent rumors that connect the Spadecarriers with the Nazis. But certain it is that their tough-guy membership is a fertile field for fifth-column agitation in India, even if they do not set out to conquer the world for Islam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Spadecarners | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...Rhine, the Romans never felt secure against them. The Kaiser must have thought of Germany's first warlord, whom the Romans called Arminius and the Germans Hermann der Cherusker, who in the First Century ambushed three legions of Romans in the Teutoburg Forest and ended Roman efforts to conquer Germany. Later on the Romans built an early Maginot Line, Limes Germanicus, between the Rhine and the Danube. But the Ro mans made the mistake of recruiting Germans for their legions, and the leader of one of these fifth columns, Odovacar the Goth, overthrew the Roman Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Man Who Failed | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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