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Colonel Kernan's plan would draw many a criticism. But the keynote of Kernan's book-attack-was the mounting watchword of the week. To the U.S. as a nation the thought of dynamic, aggressive warfare was just what the people ordered...
...speech ("The watchword is only one, categoric and binding: CONQUER!") Mussolini said Italy's continental objectives would be sought first. maritime ones later. This turned all eyes toward expected action on the French Riviera and Alpine border-Nice and Savoy. But last week when France gave up, all the Italians had to do was march...
...always in the critical hours of our history, the watchword today is 'Conquer or die!' We must conquer...
Meanwhile Rumanian police made a belated attempt to do something about 40,000 German "tourists" who came for Easter and stayed. Germans who had lived for generations in the Rumanian Banat passed the watchword, "Hitler will soon be here." In view of the general peril, Rumania and Russia were reported to have agreed to reduce tension on the Bessarabian frontier by removing troops six and a quarter miles from each side of the line. In the oil fields preparations were made to pump the oil wells full of concrete if Rumania is invaded by anybody...
Taking his spoils to Polotovsk, Budenny issued a call which became a watchword in Russia: "Proletarians, to horse!" As leader of a guerrilla troop, for a while he fought everybody who came his way. Living in forests, his horsemen emerged at night to fall upon Denikin's men or upon freebooters like themselves. By August 1919, Denikin had conquered the Ukraine and was only 200 miles from Moscow. Trotsky did not even know that Budenny existed, but it was Budenny who stopped Denikin, at Kursk. The Bolshevists quickly recognized him, began to capitalize on his spreading fame. The rumor...