Word: reconquest
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...Malnutrition and privation are slowly undermining the vitality not only of the Army, but of the many intellectuals and younger office holders on whom China's future leadership largely depends. Inadequate material help from America and continued delay in the only quick means of bringing that help - the reconquest of the Burma Road - have provoked a growing feeling of neglect and resentment among the Chinese people...
Last fortnight, in that room, a group of Argentine pro-Fascists gathered to further the doctrine implicit in the poem. The doctrine is Hispanidad-that body of Fascist aims and hopes which Dictator Francisco Franco has called the spiritual reconquest of Spanish America...
...Reconquest of Burma is a formidable task which will probably require coordinated action along all three routes, plus a strong naval force along the Burmese coast. That would mean participation of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies on a footing of equality. China is anxious that the blow be struck only when sufficient planes, tanks, guns and other weapons (supplied by the U.S. and Britain) have been amassed to equip a concentration of soldiers (supplied chiefly by China and India...
...surged after more than five years. Where a Japanese soldier stood, and within the area where the comrades of his garrison could range, there was the kind of peace the Japs liked. But where no soldier stood in the country of the conquered, there was the timeless surge of reconquest...
...under the authority of the Belgian Government in London, which is one of the signatories of the Declaration of United Nations. ... All the resources of the Belgian Congo are contributed to the war effort of the Allies. Furthermore last year Belgian Colonial troops have taken part in the reconquest of Ethiopia...