Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...businessmen, who this year considered the topic "Thinking Ahead for Business" in terms of world problems and world markets, that it "is evident that the communists are bent on pursuing their objective of dominating the entire Asian continent as a part of their long-range scheme of world conquest; Their present activities in Asia would lend force to the popular belief that Soviet Russia is trying to get all of Asia first into its orbit in order to avoid having to fight on two fronts...
...chance that this unknown and implausible figure would slide feet first into chaos, taking his country and perhaps a large part of the world with him. Iran is a vital source of oil, the lifeblood of industrial civilization (see box, next page). It is also a natural road of conquest for Soviet Russia. If Mossadeq fails to keep the country's vast oilfields operating, what will happen, at the very least, is that Western Europe will be deprived of the oil it needs to keep its industries going...
Despite last week's decisions, Britain still clings to the idea that China's conquest by the Reds is an unalterable fact and that therefore China should be in U.N., but for the time being it has given up trying to sell this idea...
...that roaring crowd, I could hear the voice of the enemy singing one more victory song. Iran is not yet behind the Soviet Curtain, but the Soviets have dangerously softened her up for conquest...
...Commander Lee Kwon Mu's operation order No. 1, dated June 22, 1950, naming Seoul as the objective of a "frontal attack." Said Ridgway: "These two orders . . . provide clear and documented information that the attack launched on June 25, 1950, was ... a deliberate and preconceived plan for the conquest of the Republic of South Korea...