Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moment of Destiny. Lieut. General Wedemeyer's directive from Washington was simple: help China forge an effective fighting force. In Chungking Wedemeyer faced a vortex of Chinese distrust, U.S. resentment, war weariness, political intrigue, near catastrophe. Two rare qualities were needed to cope with the problem-a mastery of soldiering in its highest reaches, and a talent for coalition...
...full, is a favorite. For the most part the prisoners think U.S. newspaper stories are accurate, although dyed-in-the-wool Nazis are deeply suspicious, and seize on the most trifling mistake as proof that the U.S. press is full of lies. They listen to news broadcasts with equal distrust...
...week before, the strongly socialistic Mouvement de Liberation National, France's No. 2 Resistance group, had also met in Paris, roundly rejected a fusion with F.N. Basic reason: distrust of the F.N.'s Communist complexion. M.L.N. delegates assailed the new Party line laid down by Maurice Thorez, France's No. 1 Communist, who recently returned from wartime exile in Moscow (TIME, Dec. 11). Thorez had called for the disbanding of all Resistance militia, even Communist armed bands who had seized authority in some localities. "Public security," he said, "should be assured by the regular police...
...perhaps the most stubborn fact of all was distrust. If the western Allies distrusted the aims of Russia, few could blame Marshal Stalin if he distrusted the aims of the western Allies. Europe was seething with social unrest. As the result of the war, immense political and social dislocations had taken place. Time & again Russia had demonstrated that she had a program, the will and the means to deal with this unrest. But neither Britain...
...until this mutual distrust could be allayed, a specter was haunting Europe-the specter of World...