Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe," said Diplomat Tsiang, "that an independent offensive on the part of my government will be welcomed by our fellow countrymen on the mainland. Such an offensive is not in the nature of the conquest of mainland China by the island of Formosa. It is in the nature of 8,000,000 Chinese on Formosa going to the mainland to help the 450 million Chinese there to overthrow the Communist yoke which they themselves wish to overthrow...
Pearson's statement represented no fundamental change in Canada's Far Eastern policy. That policy, so far as it concerns China, is one of acceptance of the Communist conquest. Explains one Canadian diplomat: "The key word is passivity...
...camera flicked to a map on the wall behind him, Dulles began to tick off some of the areas where Communism is on the offensive. He started with Korea, pointing out that one objective of the Communist attack there was to make easy Russian or Chinese conquest of Japan and Japan's vast industrial capacity...
Genghis Khan succeeded because he understood that an army of primitive horsemen could defeat civilized nations only if it kept complete discipline, constant mobility and immense hardihood. In his march through western Asia, after his conquest of China, he drove his troops over mountains 20,000 ft. high. The horses were accustomed to forage beneath the snow; the men, in extremities, would open the veins of their horses, drink someof the hot blood and then close the wounds...
...Historian Prawdin describes him, Genghis Khan was a ruthless but not sadistic man-a tough old nomad who did not hesitate to destroy his enemies, yet who had no interest in pointless cruelties. Conquest was in his blood; he was never happy except on the march. "The greatest joy a man can know," he said, "is to conquer his enemies and drive them before...