Word: distrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Adolf Hitler wants something, he gets it by applying an identical series of pressures to individual men within parties, individual parties within nations, and individual nations within blocs. The first step is to make each unit distrust every other unit. Next he surrounds each with an iron circle of this hostility and suspicion. Then he gives each unit to understand that, in the final reckoning, it and it alone will be awarded the fruits of victory-provided it obeys his every command. Later still he tantalizes each with alternating spasms of worry because the others seem temporarily...
...Norman Thomas, whose right to speak for all U. S. Socialists was challenged by some of his colleagues. Politely bitter, he admitted that he preferred a British victory to a Nazi one, but bespoke his distrust of an "imperialist" Churchill. His objection to H.R. 1776 coincided with Hugh Johnson's: it gave too much power to the President...
...heat on Yugoslavia. Rumors spread that Germany had demanded the use of Yugoslav railways for the transport of equipment to Albania, that large German forces were being concentrated on Yugoslavia's borders. Purposes of this little war of nerves were to test the resistance of Yugoslavia, to create distrust of Belgrade in Athens and Ankara...
...Great Life (Dial; $3) veteran actor-director-playwright John Charles Nugent tells the warm, homely story of his trouping life from shabby road shows to Hollywood, draws his own technical conclusions from the wings rather than from the study, vents an oldtimer's distrust of directors who pronounce it "theatah" or, more especially, "thawtaw...
...When," asked General Maxime Weygand once in a moment of deep exasperation, "will the old man [Pétain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer from Chateldon [Laval]?" The distrust of the hard-bitten little soldier for the swarthy politician of the white tie was deep-seated and violent. It led many people in many capitals to speculate that Weygand might desert Vichy for Great Britain. Last week North American Newspaper Alliance's chubby, energetic Jay Allen flew to Marrakech, Morocco, scooped the world's press on Weygand's present political intentions: "I cannot give you answers...