Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department lists 17,787 Americans living in South America.-ED.] In my travels I have met many of them and can assure those at home that most of them are quite normal types whose behavior is far higher than the low rating accorded by Mr. Mallison. I really claim at least parity with the English on this score and am unwilling to grant citizens of the Axis countries the superiority indicated in his (Mallison's) letter-after all, aren't we all human, regardless of land of birth...
...must refuse to be duped, as other democracies were duped, by German lies. The people who claim that the attack on Russia has changed the nature of the war are people who have opposed effective aid against aggression even before the war was "changed"-Hoover, Landon, Lindbergh...
Assessment. The one claim to which Adolf Hitler had some right was the number of prisoners he said he had taken. He claimed 895,000 in his communiques early in the week; with the prisoners from the Ukraine, his total moved over the million mark. In the last war, the Russians had one and one half "blood casualties" (killed and wounded) for every prisoner loss in the early, mobile phases.* In last spring's Balkan campaign, the Greeks, where they fought hard (in the Struma Valley, for instance), had about three and one half blood casualties to every prisoner...
...live today in the midst of a revolution-a revolution against scarcity. So far we have allowed Hitler to claim that revolution. But we need not do so. There exists within us the elements of a leadership new to the world; a leadership by which we could make that revolution ours and channel its great forces into the free life for the development of a free world...
That is the ultimate meaning of the war against Naziism: "There can be no peace of compromise with Naziism. . . . There can be no compromise with revolution. Every revolution lives by its claim to exclusive authority. . . . What we wanted and what we failed to achieve, and what will be the aim of the peace to come, is the end of the revolution...