Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crashing boner in teaming up with Hitler was now added inescapable evidence that Finland had waited too long to open negotiations with her big neighbor and old enemy. Yet Ryti & Co. could not bring themselves to talk hard peace sense; Finland's-innate distrust of Russia was still powerful. Fortnight ago Premier Edwin Linkomies let it be known that Finland would like peace-if she could have her 1939 frontiers. Last week Russophobe Finance Minister Vaino Tanner said Finland would be glad to resume normal relations with Russia, provided "we could get a guarantee that we will...
...Government in Exile, least of all Russia. Since its army in Britain and the Near East is Poland's greatest military and political force until Polish soil is reconquered, Sosnkowski's political influence will probably exceed that of the Premier. The Russians have been frank in their distrust of Sosnkowski...
...Finland intact as a buffer against Russia. But the two peoples invariably get on each other's nerves. Business, trade and cultural interests strongly influenced Sweden to the pre-Hitler Germany. Now the Swedes despise the Germans. That leaves only Russia, which the Swedes learned to fear and distrust from their nursery rhymes, and the far-away U.S., where virtually every Swedish family has blood ties...
...Tradition. But no matter how logical it was, the dissolution was a tremendous act. It was not merely a protestation by Russia that she no longer distrusted the Western nations; it was also a protestation that they no longer had to distrust her. This protestation cost Stalin and the Soviet Government part of their tradition...
...suspension" of relations between the Russians and the Poles. The Poles had capped their old enmity toward Russia by supporting the Nazi propaganda story that 10,000 missing Polish officers had been found in mass graves in the forest of Katyn. Herr Goebbels said the Russians slaughtered them. Long distrust of Russia had conditioned the Poles to believe the German account. Without notifying either Britain or Russia, they fed the flames of anti-Soviet suspicion by demanding an International Red Cross investigation. The Red Cross (in Geneva) refused; the chastened Poles hastily announced that their request would "lapse...