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...week Pravda quoted Joseph Stalin's speech of Nov. 6, 1941: "We have not, nor can we have, such war aims as the seizure of foreign territories or the conquest of other peoples. . . . Our first aim is to free our territories and our peoples from the German Nazi yoke. We have not, nor can we have, such war aims as the imposition of our will and our regime on the Slavic and other enslaved peoples of Europe who are waiting for our help. Our aim is to help these peoples in their struggle for liberation from...
...Atlantic meeting we had in mind primarily restoration of the sovereignty, self-government and national life of states and nations of Europe now under the Nazi yoke.... That is quite a separate problem from the progressive evolution of self-governing institutions in the regions . . . which owe allegiance to the British Crown. We have made declarations on these matters which are complete in themselves, free from ambiguity, and related to the conditions and circumstances of the territories and peoples affected. They will be found to be entirely in harmony with the high conception of freedom and justice which , inspired the joint...
...greatest patriots of Allied Nations embroiled in World War II. I refer to General Draja Mihailovich, Minister of War to the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile. . . . This little man with an iron will whose unsung praises will one day be heralded to a people victoriously released from the yoke of our common enemy...
...food to relieve the starving, as Herbert Hoover did in World War I. But Lehman also would use it as psychological ammunition to help win the war. To subject nations the world over would go the word that bread and meat were on the way, once the Axis yoke was cast off. His job was not to stop with victory, but to advance behind United Nations troops with blueprints for the economic reconstruction of Europe's some-day-to-be-unshackled millions. Food, clothes and shelter, Lehman knew, would not alone build a lasting peace. Whole societies would have...
...articles. Most surprising of these is Paul Hagen's study of German youth, in which he argues convincingly that the task of "re-educating the Nazis" may be casier than anyone has dared hope, for there are signs that Hitler's young followers are beginning to grumble under the yoke. Any such development would revolutionize the emphasis of plans for the rehabilitation of Germany after...