Word: assertional
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Poland. "The Russian claim . . . has always been unchanged for the Curzon Line in the east, and the Russian offer has always been that ample compensation should be gained for Poland at the expense of Germany in the north and west. ... I assert with the utmost conviction the broad justice of the policy upon which, for the first time, all the three great Allies have now taken their stand. ... A most sovereign declaration has been made by Marshal Stalin and the Soviet Union that the sovereign independence of Poland is to be maintained, and this decision is now joined...
...gallantries by selling a European company the right to construct and operate the canal across the Isthmus of Suez. Great Britain (militarily) and France (administratively) controlled the canal. If not exactly friends, these powers had become old familiars with whom Egypt could quarrel cozily whenever it became necessary to assert her dignity. Now a new, incalculable factor threatened to complicate the Suez Canal problem. The Soviet Union was reported to have quietly acquired a sizable block of Suez Canal shares seized by the Germans from Jews. At the next board meeting Russia might well demand that henceforth...
...Have Simply Evaded." Ex-Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles deplored the "wide and growing rift in the basic political understanding between the three major Allies." He urged the U.S. to assert bold leadership, to hurry up a Big Three meeting, to call the United Nations together and place all political problems in the lap of a Security Council...
Stressing that "Germany has not always been an aggressor," Professor Vietor points out that she "was a peaceful nation in the time of Goethe, Schiller, and the Romanticists." He states, however, that a change came at the end of the nineteenth century, when the country desired to assert itself and oppose the "have" nations such as England...
...Proved His Point. The man who runs this airway is tough, gruff Brigadier General Lawrence G. Fritz, onetime operations vice president for the T.W.A. When he was A.T.C.'s operations chief in Washington, he used to assert: "The North Atlantic . . . can be flown both east and west on regular schedule in winter as well as summer...