Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city that Soviet troops were moving in on the rear of the Polish Armies. Quizzing citizens, U. S. correspondents met profound gloom, not from sympathy for Poles or hatred of Russia, but because Italy's precarious neutrality was threatened. Next week, asked Italians, would the Soviet Union claim Bessarabia that she lost to Rumania in World War I? Or the week after? What would Turkey do? Would she take what she had got from France and Great Britain and join Russia? Would there be an offer of peace by Germany? Or would Italy join Russia and Germany in some...
...that year, he said, Stalin swallowed the U. S. party, cleaned out its personnel, put in his puppet Browder. To Browder's claim that funds no longer flowed through the Moscow pipe line, Witness Gitlow replied that they used to come at the rate of $100,000 a year, probably still...
...famed U. S. Pathologist William H. Welch. The late Spanish war taught doctors a rapid, efficient blood-transfusion technique. But military surgery remains essentially a problem in organization, and doctors aim primarily to sort and shift casualties, to move them on like "factory goods on a conveyor belt." Experts claim that eight operating teams, of nine men each (including anesthetists and nurses), can handle 120 serious surgical cases in ten hours...
...test of Britain's Government was not its claim to the loyalty of its people, which few doubted, but the ability of its venerable institutions to change quickly, to face a crisis, to adjust its slow-turning machinery to the swift emergencies of war. Test of Britain's men was not the sincerity of their aims, which few besides Hitler questioned, but their ability to act promptly, strike hard if necessary, change their pace as Hitler changed...
...enthusiastically that by 1916 he won a gold watch as the best marksman in the (then Austrian) Army. He fought under his leader against Russia on the Eastern Front of the World War, and afterwards fought the ill-armed Bolsheviks in Latvia, Lithuania, the Ukraine. Such claim as Edward Smigly-Rydz can lay to being a military genius rests principally on those experiences and on the teachings of the French military mission which went to Poland in 1920 to show the young country a thing or two about military science. Unfortunately the Frenchmen, who by nature are the worst colonists...