Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frightened the big international camera-duckers: the U.S. might use it as a club in post-war negotiations. With assets physically under its jurisdiction, and so recorded under oath, the U.S. could dicker as to their release to their country of origin after the war; could if need be insist that they be invested in U.S. industry (rather than withdrawn in a deflationary period); could exact a tithe, a fifth, a half, as the price of safekeeping in a world where nothing was safe. For this purpose, even incomplete records could be of value. Probably not a handful...
...painful subject to thoughtful Britons is the brass hats' attitude toward the labor shortage. The brass hats wish in all circumstances to keep Britain's 4,000,000-man Army in the field. In spite of military experts, who insist that the power of a modern army lies in its mechanization plus a huge force of industry behind it, the brass hats have prevailed...
...like Herbert Hoover ("Freedom in America does not depend on the outcome of struggles for material power between other nations."), the tasks in which FORTUNE'S editors say the U.S. is failing are themselves unnecessary. Unpredictable developments in the war may reduce the urgency on which the editors insist-the Germans and the Russians may cancel each other out more than they believe possible; the turns and twists of modern war may change the U.S. picture as much as it has changed Russia's or Britain...
...root of his present indecision. If the Russians are on their way to triumph by Sept. 1, John L. Lewis may attempt to return to command of C.I.O.'s masses; may tell the U.S. that the President has now been shown to be an untrustworthy leader; and insist that labor be given a greater voice in national affairs...
...meet such raids, they have very specific preparations, which are close military secrets. They know-and they think the Germans know-the possible reward which might justify the risk and cost of such seemingly useless raids: panicky American outcry might insist on cutting off aid to Britain and withholding equipment from the new advanced U.S. bases until the U.S. improved its home defenses. By the time the Eastern seaboard was banked with defensive planes and guns, the Nazis might win the battles they really need...