Word: conqueror
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...since its arrival the Nazi Army of Occupation had seized 140 trainloads of provisions, paying for them with 1,000,000,000 francs worth of "bonds." To French hopes that at least some of the confiscated goods would be returned, the Nazi welfare authorities replied: "It is not the conqueror's business to relieve the world misery and distress caused by the fault of the vanquished...
General de Gaulle and other "free Frenchmen" in London observed Bastille Day by laying a wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph in Whitehall. In France, July 14 was a day of mourning, as July 4 might be to the U. S. if it surrendered its freedom to a conqueror...
What the raiders found out about Nazi preparations to cross the Channel, the British War Office kept to itself. But the British east coast, from Berwick-on-Tweed on the Scottish border around to Hastings on the Channel, where William the Conqueror conquered, was proclaimed a defense zone and its inhabitants packed up. Britain's bathing beaches became a barbed-wire front. A huge fleet of fishing craft to transport troops in small groups was reported being assembled by the Germans along the Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts...
...danger and duty thus described by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, some 2,650,000 British males, variously armed and accoutred and closely deployed in an area about the size of Wyoming, last week stood up expectantly. As the French Republic went under the conqueror's heel at Compiegne (see p. 20), they alone in all Europe were left to face what the Wilhelmstrasse last week assured them would be an attack "like nothing the world has ever seen...
...shall not land troops like William the Conqueror and gain Brazil by the strength of arms. Our weapons are not "visible ones."-Adolf Hitler