D. <span>They claimed the ships were carrying French goods</span>
Quantitative observations are where you make an observation on something having to do with numbers or high amounts of measurement. It has to have numbers or measurements involved. IT CAN NOT BE AN INFERENCE. Hope this helped
Alger Hiss. Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.