Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What has been the outstanding characteristic of that resistance? Every day experts have been forced to admit that the resistance was "light" or at most "light to moderate." We have captured and will capture some of the Germans' most historic and strategically important towns, yet we cannot honestly claim to have crushed any important German army in the field...
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...
This influx of last-minute belligerents called attention to the legalistic aspects of the Security Conference's voting roster. Would Russia, for instance, ask to see the list of Peru's war dead? If, as the British and U.S. governments feared, the U.S.S.R. would claim a vote for each of its autonomous republics, could the point be made that none of the 16 nor the U.S.S.R. itself had formally declared war on Germany...
...This will not only be a subject for international bickerings. It will also be a subject for internal political bickerings. Each political party, even the Liberals, will say that they won the war. The only people who will put in no claim at all will be the sailors, soldiers and airmen. Eventually (if we don't hang him quickly) Hitler will claim to have won it -and probably will in the long run, if you don't watch...
Until the U.S. makes up its mind whether it wants monopoly, limited competition or free competition on its overseas air routes, the final assignment of routes will be a difficult decision for CAB to make. But one point was clearing up. Pan Am no longer could claim a monopoly on the "know-how" of overseas flying. Since Pearl Harbor too many of Pan Am's competitors had learned, the hard way, how to navigate the ocean's airways...