Word: concerning
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...able Washington analyst for the Times, and longtime friend and admirer of Secretary of State Hull, could let neither friendship nor personal admiration stand in the way of expressing his own alarm at the U.S. drift into danger. Arthur Krock had found on all sides such disturbing cause for concern that he insisted "only a clear and candid statement by the President or Mr. Hull can remove these apprehensions...
...Problem of Tomorrow. At the same time the Times's London bureau chief, James B. Reston, managed to send through censorship several articles reporting concern that the U.S. is not taking a leading role in defining the shape of postwar Europe. He noted that "the great power of Soviet Russia in the political field is active, while the power of the American Republic is much more passive. . . . The silence of the United States on (European) topics is a source of a considerable amount of questioning" among Allied diplomats who must plan for the future...
...Polish Government in Exile, it is not our concern to pass judgment upon the merits of some of Russia's complaints against it. But it is at least a legitimate Government, supported by the Polish Underground and composed almost entirely of men and parties who opposed the dictatorship of the Polish colonels...
Unexplained Dilemma. The investigating board was "astonished" at the dismal results of its findings, Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, chief Navy surgeon (and chairman*), told newsmen. A special "cause for concern" was the number of discharges for neuropsychiatric disabilities, "particularly those occurring in the first six months of service." In other words, the number of men who could not stand the regimentation that must go with military service is already too high; lowering of standards is out of the question...
...great United Nations concern is the future of Axis educational systems. Britain's Baron Vansittart of Denham advocates supervision of German schools by 1,000 or so United Nations inspectors, who would aim to raise a generation of woolly lambs fit to lie down with any lion. Last week a similar idea was expressed in Princeton's Public Opinion Quarterly by Gregor Athalwin Ziemer, who once ran the American Colony School in Berlin (1928-39), then wrote Education for Death (Hitler's Children on the screen). Said Ziemer...