Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister started the uproar two months ago with a statement on Britain's colonial policy: "We mean to hold our own. I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. . . ." Morrison knew that suspicion and distrust had resulted in the Allied world, and that it was high time another British voice tried to still the criticisms of Churchill imperialism. Said Herbert Morrison...
...with Labor's leaders still entertaining a robust distrust of British Communists, there was little chance of a Labor convention voting on the Communist request. Harry Pollitt was well aware of this when he wrote his letter last week. But Harry Pollitt had a purpose: the Communists are now on record in favor of unity on the Left, and this may win them new adherents-at Labor's expense...
Chang Ching-hui was an ambitious man who lived by the sword. Born in Manchuria, he rose to power among the Chinese, who distrust personal ambition and deprecate the sword. Worse, in the end, he betrayed China. But last week, according to Chungking reports, Chang Ching-hui redeemed himself: with a certain nobility, he ended his career...
...future that matters. ... I think we shall find that the division, though hinging upon our future foreign policy ... is the progressives against the reactionaries all over again. ... If you are a reactionary at home, you are most likely to be an isolationist abroad. ... If you distrust the plain people in this country, you will certainly distrust them in Russia. High-tariff protectionism, hatred of social reforms, appeasement, isolationism, advocacy of a strictly military war and fear of a people's peace all go together in one package...
Thrifty, earthy Alsace parents sent young Pétain through St. Cyr military academy, later left him a small fortune. He took on the prevailing St. Cyr color-reaction, royalism, distrust of politics. He also developed a love of off-tune brass bands, climbing trees, skipping rope, floating paper boats in a tub of water, watching animals...