Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precedent. Last week, when Germany embarrassed Russia by anchoring City of Flint at Murmansk, the U. S. State Department moved with calm deliberation. It asked its officials in Oslo, Moscow and Berlin for information. Alexander Kirk, chargé d'affaires in Berlin, made informal inquiries, reported the German claim that inadequate charts had forced the City of Flint to take refuge at Murmansk. What Germany demanded of Russia was not known. What the U. S. wanted was clear: it wanted information about the whereabouts and welfare of the crew. Coupled with U. S. playing down of the case, that...
...appeared rather to be an instance in which a simple demand for candor, and an insistence on simple humanitarian considerations, exercised an astonishing force. In Washington Secretary of State Hull issued a stinging resume of the case that listed contradictions in Russia's position, reiterated the U. S. claim that the ship be returned, and sounded the democratic note again by concluding: "Each person can judge for himself . . . how much light is shed on this entire transaction by the action of the Soviet Government in withholding adequate cooperation with the American Government with respect to the . . . essential facts pertaining...
...food, fuel, clothing. Russia therefore "declares that it does not agree" to the British contraband list and rules, does not recognize the control port inspection and seizure system, especially since Russian ships and cargoes are State property. "On the strength of the above," Russia reserved the right to claim compensation from Britain for losses incurred. No trace of alarm was shown in London over what one eminent legalist called Russia's "fantastic" position...
Since last year, no fewer than 13 prominent psychiatrists have publicly diagnosed Adolf Hitler (at long distance) as a paranoiac, have prophesied the Führer's mental collapse. Although he can no longer claim to speak with a patriotic objectivity, Dr. William Brown, director of Oxford's famed Institute of Experimental Psychology, last week upped the number of such diagnoses to 14: "Sir Nevile Henderson's final report on the actions of Herr Hitler confirms my conclusion . . . that he has every symptom of the paranoiac who is suffering from persecutory mania and whose brainstorms and megalomania...
...little. The almost entirely unimpressive showing of the Tiger eight last year would ordinarily allow little hope for the coming season, but the Bengals still think they have a trick or two up their sleeves mainly because a Tiger cub crew last year, unimpressive in itself, laid claim to some excellent material...