Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Largely through the influence of these men, Sikorski accepted a Nazi propaganda claim, charged the Soviet Union with killing Polish officers in Russia. Russia broke relations with Sikorski's Government, attacked it in official editorials...
...usual, Editor Sargent sums up his study of the private schools in no uncertain terms: "Each war brings out the weaknesses . . . of our educational system. . . . Opposition to private schools based on the claim that they are not democratic. . . . More careful investigation . . . of our social system has disclosed . . . that not only do men not have equal opportunities in this great democracy, but that there is a well established caste system, in the toils of which we have been so closely enmeshed that we have been unable to see it. . . . The ideals and aims of some of the schools must change...
...hard fact is that DeGaullism, as the only uncompromising channel of French resistance, represents the French masses in the homeland and in the Empire. Charles de Gaulle, as its leader, is the only leader who can fairly claim to represent the French people, pending a free election. De Gaullism's basic strength has beaten Robert Murphy before (TIME, June 14). Its pressure last week forced the resignation of Pierre Boisson, the ex-Vichyite Governor General of French West Africa, who had been stubbornly supported by the U.S. If U.S. policy continues to ignore the fact and the strength...
...issue was strictly domestic politics. Dyspeptic John Curtin had angered the Opposition by declaring publicly that the Jap invasion threat had passed. That looked as if the Prime Minister, with an eye on the regular elections in November, was making the biggest claim in Commonwealth political history: that Labor had saved the country. The Opposition's leader, Arthur W. ("Artie the Artful") Fadden, presumably thought that Curtin's popularity would rise as Allied prospects in the Pacific improved. Besides, the politicians wanted a showdown over controversial labor, social security and food policies...
...Great Britain and Germany apparently worked on the first principles of radar at about the same time. So many people now claim its discovery and development that "the postwar battle over rights will probably be an epic on a national and international scale...