Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...probable that, except for the temporary limitation of her naval armaments. Japan would have been unable to wage her war of conquest in China during the early thirties and would not have been able to ally herself with Germany. It is even conceivable that China would not have fallen under Communist domination if Britain and the United States had not chosen in Washington to abandon their strategic ascendancy in the Pacific...
...there, so why the hell should we invite them here," explained Ceylon's Sir John Kotelawala.) North and South Viet Nam were invited; South and North Korea were not. Indonesia's Ali Sastroamidjojo proposed Japan, a surprising suggestion from a nation that still remembers the Japanese conquest of the East Indies. But Japan's invitation was designed to balance off another...
Born. To Sir Edmund Hillary, 35, New Zealand beekeeper knighted for his successful 1953 conquest (with Tenzing, the Sherpa guide) of Mt. Everest, and Lady Louise Hillary, 24: their first child, a son; in Auckland, New Zealand. Name: Edmund. Weight...
...CONQUEST OF EVEREST, by Sir John Hunt, was the high point in mountain-climbing literature, an impressively solid description of the planning and the kind of men it took to conquer Everest...
...resulting position is this: the Chinese Communists are publicly and solemnly committed to the conquest of Formosa. The U.S., with the signing of the new treaty, is publicly and solemnly committed to defend Formosa against attack. This clarification makes pointless any further argument about the admission of Red China...