Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army discipline, though it varies slightly with individual camp commanders (colonels and lieutenant colonels), is generally strict and according to Geneva Convention rules. The Army's chief concern is to give the enemy no excuse for retaliatory mistreatment of Americans in prison camps overseas...
...merely müde, müde, müde (tired, tired, tired) and only ask for Brot, Arbeit, Familie (bread, work, family). Close under the surface of their wooden faces is one emotion: deep, somber despair. All of them-old and young, disillusioned and arrogant-have one concern: "What is going to happen to us after the war?" The question uppermost in their minds: ''Will they turn us over to the Russians...
...Since October 1943 this stupendous loss has been the prime concern of the American Library Association's Board on International Relations. After much exploring of ways & means, the Board, with the help of the State Department and the Library of Congress, convened representatives of all interested agencies, last week took steps to form a corporation. Its name: American Book Center, Inc. Its purposes: 1) to replace lost books; 2) to supply the world's libraries with recent U.S. publications...
This might mean that Britain, as a member of the World Security Council, could prevent intra-American action against its old commercial friend, Argentina. Or that the Soviet Union, the object of much concern at Mexico City, could check an intra-American move against an American aggressor...
...solution discussed at Mexico City was to limit the World Security Council's authority to matters of obvious world concern, exclude the Council from primarily regional affairs. In Big Power practice, the U.S. would then decide where the World Council's interest begins and ends. But-could the U.S. reserve this right without granting Soviet Russia's right to similar jurisdiction in western Asia or in eastern Europe? Pondering this question, close to home, the U.S. may view parallel British and Russian anxieties in a new light...