Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters written to you expressing blatantly a pro-Nazi, or at best a pre-war type of Irish, hate for Britain and its defenders. Let there be no mistake about it, such attitudes are contrary to America's best interests, and carry with them the seeds of distrust and discord concerning our Government. A person is either for democracy or he isn't-there is no compromise stand...
...only are his persecutions of minorities abhorred, but all his overtures are distrusted. No longer has he the advantage, of being able to distract, divide and suborn his opponents. All the world as yet unconquered is united in distrust...
...last year Luis Muñoz Marin urged Puerto Ricans to distrust all politicians, including himself. There are 786 election districts in Puerto Rico, and he preached that inspiring message in more than 500 of them. Some of these districts are high in the mountains, and he had to travel on foot or by mule to ask the poverty-stricken natives, the jibaros, to vote for him but also to watch him like a hawk. A masterly stump speaker with a square frame and a black mustache which makes him look like an amiable desperado, Muñoz Marin would...
...Henry-Haye never met Hitler and there is no record that his activities toward appeasing Germany were less patriotic than those of Neville Chamberlain and many another man of property and peace. Nevertheless, when he arrived in the U. S. as Ambassador, the mass of U. S. citizens instinctively distrusted him because of his background. They have continued to distrust him because Ambassador Henry-Haye has chosen to plead his cause largely among intimates in U. S. salons rather than among the masses in U. S. saloons. His pride, his bitterness that France with her 100,000 World...
...increase pressure for relaxation of the British blockade. This is what the Ambassador wants. But many Frenchmen in the U. S. are convinced that, whatever the consequences, to win the war Britain must maintain an airtight blockade. This, they say, is the real reason why U. S. citizens should distrust Ambassador Henry-Haye...