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...advance of the conqueror, Japan began to go through the motions of reaching for democracy...
...last week when U.S. and Filipino forces joined at the onetime enemy base of Banaue in northern Luzon, split the Jap remnants into three parts. Immediately the combined forces drove hard on one pocket where, natives insisted, Jap troops were still being led by Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, blatant conqueror of the Philippines...
Bloodshed and treachery, in delicate balance, had brought Marquis Don Francisco Pizarro, discoverer and conqueror of Peru, a long way from herding swine under the oaks of Estredemadura...
...Desert Fox. In 1917, Wavell was sent to Palestine to join the staff of Lord Allenby, master of desert warfare and conqueror of the Turks. The association marked a turning point in Wavell's career. He emerged from the campaign with: 1) an intense admiration for the military genius of Allenby, which later flowered in the biography, Allenby: A Study in Greatness; 2) two hard-won Turkish nicknames -"the desert fox" and "the greatest bloodhound." In a terse footnote in his poetry anthology. Other Men's Flowers, Wavell recalls how Lord Allenby, who had just received news...
...until that step of high statesmanship had been achieved would India's Viceroy be free to turn to another project -a biography of Belisarius, Byzantine conqueror of the North African Vandals...