Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is a continual slowdown in all work. . . . Officials appointed by us have been replaced with Fascists, and some removed by us for Fascist views have been reinstated. There is still graft, resulting in looting of food." Fascist youth organizations have reappeared under new names. Italians have come to distrust their liberators. The Allies seem to be losing both prestige and popularity...
...Market. "It is not that the people's distrust of the fighting nations' intentions has increased; it is much more than that. No political sector believes in the good intentions of any other, and worse still, they don't believe in their own. Nobody believes that tomorrow will be better than today, not for him, nor for his country, nor for the world...
Message to Dissenters. By statement and implication, Winston Churchill showed that his first & foremost concern was Britain's place in a power-political continent and world. But he did not allay all of the House of Commons' doubt and distrust. Cried a caustic, Conservative M.P. : The Prime Minister is "a Charlie McCarthy for Stalin. . . ." Such complainants failed to grasp the salient fact of Churchill's speech: to the. best of his vast abilities, Tory Churchill was fighting defensively for Britain. At the end of a restive, two-day debate, Anthony Eden completed the maneuvers which his chief...
...Knowing readers spotted a clue to the attack in Izvestia's inclusion of Poland among the countries supposedly dissatisfied with Vatican policy. The Russians' clear meaning was: while we are arranging a "suitable" postwar Government for Poland, will Catholics who share our distrust of clericalism please urge the Vatican not to use its enormous influence with Polish Catholics against...
...universal organization ... a few great countries will have to bear the burden of carrying out the ultimate decisions. . . . Common men & women will have scant sympathy for those politicians who, for lack of selfdiscipline, give loud utterance to their dark doubts and sinister suspicions. . . . Any attempt to disseminate distrust among those great nations, any appeal to national prejudice, to old jealousies and fears between the big countries, is a menace to every small state...