Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supplies in the food stores, bacons, sausages, cheese, eggs, homemade preserves in the farmers' larders, and plenty of warm, good clothing on German backs, including frequent fur coats. The Russian zone is far ahead of other zones as a going concern. This is the reason: the Russians know just what they want in Germany. The Western Allies continue to be vague and confused...
...hemisphere's Mr. Big, the U.S. could take whatever line it pleased. But to go on doing so belied a Good Neighbor's concern for neighborly action. Some Latin American diplomats hinted that if the State Department did not change its tune, the "Pan-American system" would go on ice for six years (i.e., as long as Perón was President). The question was how badly the U.S. wants hemispheric unity. For hemispheric unity could not be had without including...
Back at work he canceled plans for a weekend cruise, stood by for more news. It was one of the most difficult periods Harry Truman had been through in his 49 weeks as President. While he did not show grave concern, there was no mistaking the White House atmosphere. One of his helpers summed up the official attitude. Said he, plainly worried: "There hasn't been a joke cracked around here all week...
...things fill me with concern regarding present trends in this country within our great sister communion, the Roman Catholic Church. The first is its increasing commitment to a Roman, as distinguished from the traditionally independent, policy of American Catholicism. Such a trend has inevitably produced in history the phenomenon called clericalism, which has been the bane of Latin lands and from which we in the United States have been providentially spared. Clericalism is the pursuit of power, especially political power, by a religious hierarchy, carried on by secular methods and for purposes of social domination...
...second concern goes deeper. It is the practice, lately initiated in the official Catholic press in this country, of vilifying, in a most unworthy way, the Protestant Reformation and its great leaders, particularly Martin Luther and John Calvin. I plead with the distinguished scholars of the Roman Catholic Church in America that they frown upon every journalistic attempt to distort historical truth for ecclesiastical ends...