"They havé"embarked on a scheme of conquest which is avowedly intended to be world wide. For that purpose, they have built up in secret an immense military machine based on the forced labour of Germany, They have already attacked, conquered and occupied Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Norway: Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg. France. Rumania Hungury Bulgaria and Yugoslavic and reduced the people of those thirteen countries to a condition of semi-Slavery to Nazi despotism, "They have attached to their Axis es vassals two other nations dominate ed by the same purpose of military conquest—Italy guilty of unprovoked attacks upon Ethiopia, Albania and Greece, and Jspan,- guilty of a similar' attack upon her neighbour, China, "By this conquest, they have destroyed western civilization which has been slowly building up a Europe ever since the dark ages.
"We are so close to these sudden happenings that we can hardly yet realize the havoc which has thus been wrought both within and without the national boundaries of that unhappy continent, The growth of freedom had been so long.and So steady that we had come to believe it soon to be the recognized system of the whole world. All at once it has been dashed aside and trampled on by those Nazi rulers, who are proposing to establish world order in which they shall be the masters, the peoples of all other "Tokyo Reaction nations their slaves, (Reuter.
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