Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shah's powerful friends were thirsty for his oil. Eager applicants for concessions had been sitting around in Teheran for months. Least pressing perhaps was the U.S.: Washington's concern with declining reserves had not yet reached the stage where it called for the use of aggressive oil diplomacy in Iran. The British thirst was sharper. Dependent entirely on oil from abroad, Britain could not afford to pass up any opportunity. She had played the politics of oil longer, more successfully than anyone else. Now she was ready to play again...
Secretary Byrnes also declared that any violation of human rights is "a matter of common concern to all the republics. As such it justifies collective multilateral action after full consultation among the republics in accordance with established procedures...
Retiring National Commander Edward N. Scheiberling, solidly backed by newly-elected Commander John Stelle, onetime Governor of Illinois, answered a firm "yes." Said he: the Legion is a going concern with 1,666,802 members, $15 million in its treasury, and $200 million in property. With all this, said Commander Scheiberling, the new veterans could do as they wished ("You can take over the Legion...
...atom was not Clement Attlee's sole concern. He also wanted to get on better terms with Harry Truman and convince the capitalist U.S. that socialist Britain could be a good and useful friend -especially if Communist Russia turned out to be no friend at all. In both endeavors, he made some progress...
Payne takes no partisan stand on Chi nese politics, and so avoids the pros & cons of the Kuomintang-Communist feud. His concern is with the people and their land. He is as sensitive to the landscape as a super-polychromatic film. "I am obsessed," he writes, "with life and death at their sharpest points...