Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...further appeal the eight points had a merit of their own: the 14 points were a promise held out by the President of the U.S. without the approval of Britain and France, who subsequently sabotaged it; the eight were a joint commitment. If Europeans did not distrust the promise of equal economic opportunity for victor and vanquished, there was a chance that the eight might have some of the same effect as the fourteen had 23 years earlier...
Service, deliberately chose Latin America as the most important field, in a day when Pan-American posts were regarded as hopeless holes. The Department played its ancient jest on him: he was sent to Tokyo. In two years in Japan he conceived an abiding distrust and dislike of the Japanese, and in 24 years has seen no reason to change his views...
...saving of the Far East is another matter. In the Orient the U.S. is not an unarmed nation; its naval muscles command from Japan a respect which Hitler does not grant the U.S. military muscles. Toward Japan Welles has had a clear policy of distrust. But again he has been an "appeaser," because he has consistently favored trading with Japan until the U.S. is ready for any consequences. Last week he had come to the bottom of the diplomatic barrel. There were almost no diplomatic moves left unmade. The problem of the Japanese would sooner or later be turned over...
Long ago John L. Lewis learned to distrust Franklin Roosevelt; he has come as near as is possible to saying that the President's word is no good. He believes that the President made a complete bust of his domestic policies and has since deliberately led the country toward war in order to save his political skin. He believes that the defense program is being tragically bungled, with an inefficiency fairly inviting graft and waste. He thinks the President is struggling desperately in quicksand of his own creation. He thinks the President's policies have nearly wrecked...
Bracken has admired and worked with Churchill politically since 1923. Since last September he has lived at 10 Downing Street and hardly left his boss's side. He shares Churchill's taste for black cigars, voluminous reading, vigorous talk. He also shared his distrust of the British appeasement group, was known to them as "The Redheaded Beast." As Minister of Information, Bracken has one inestimable advantage. He can be counted on to spring no surprises on his boss...