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...South. But from Bravil down to the Antarctic we find countries that can not depend on inter-American trade exclusively; in fact, these countries can not live unless they export elsewhere. These countries in the lower half of South America would be the pawns in the hands of any conqueror of western Europe, despite the fact that they are proud nations not anxious to be ruled from Berlin, London, or Washington...
...collaboration. Germany may prefer the new method to the misery, strife, repressions and conflicts of peace in the old manner. . . . First choice of course rests with the victor. . . .If all roads are closed to us, we shall know how to suffer and wait." Thus France knelt to her conqueror...
Anniversaries. The snug little town of Torrington, Conn., its 200th, which it celebrated with pageant, parade, a speech by Governor Raymond Earl Baldwin; the tight little isle of England, its 874th since invasion and defeat by William (of Normandy) the Conqueror...
Saxons fought Anglo-Saxons and destroyed the monuments their cultures had built. Off the coast of Africa, Frenchmen fought Frenchmen and their former allies, the British. In Indo-China Frenchmen fought their conqueror's allies, the Japanese. In China, yellow men fought yellow men, even as white men fought white men in Europe and black men fought black men-on white men's orders -in Africa...
...early books, scorned by U. S. critics, were warmly received, like their author, in England, where she fascinated Thomas Hardy with descriptions of San Francisco's cable cars, described George Moore as "a codfish crossed by a satyr." The Conqueror (1902), a life of Alexander Hamilton, generated a whole school of romantic, novelized biography...