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...vast U.S.S.R. might look like if its western armies were destroyed by Germany, but there was a grave possibility that Germany's hegemony would extend to the continent of Asia. To be considered then would be probable German encroachment on Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, possible German support of China against Japan, the ultimate possibility that Japan would be reduced to puppetry similar to Italy...
...personal observation on the Iraq situation: though the Iraqis seemed to outnumber the British five-to-one, and though the Germans were leading them they were still rotten fighters, and the British would be able to handle them. But as to British chances against the Germans in that sphere. Jimmy...
...labor unions and the occasional justification of strikes, urged decent wage standards. State regulation of industry, more equal distribution of wealth, broader ownership of property, and much else that was "radical" then. Forty years later, calling Rerum Novarum "the Magna Charta of all Catholic activity in the social sphere," Pius XI confirmed, developed and enlarged it in Quadragesimo Anno...
...Americas. "In the United States the sphere of influence would be Canada, Central and South America, Newfoundland and Greenland, with the islands in regional waters, but there would be an undertaking on America's part not to form a hegemony in South America against the Axis. Indeed, there would be required the fullest freedom and equality of opportunity for Germany and its allies...
...come. It was a prognosis which the U.S., having opened the Red Sea (about a two-month voyage from New York) to its shipping, having committed itself a step further in the Battle of the Atlantic by turning over ten anti-rumrunning cutters, having attached Greenland to its sphere of defense (see p. 23), might digest well: "It is," said the Prime Minister, "of course very hazardous to try to forecast in what direction or directions Hitler will employ his military machine in the present year. ..." Winston Churchill paused. He was pale and tired-looking, and his delivery this...