Word: distruster
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...time when West Germany might be drawn to De Gaulle's point of view, that risk was worth taking. The immediate French reaction was a shrug, with a hint of a sniff. France's Minister of Information Alain Peyrefitte said that his government does not really distrust Kennedy's resolution to defend Europe. But, he said, France does have a right to question Kennedy's ability to impose his policies on his presidential successors. "France," he said, "would have wished in 1914 to have the United States at her side, as also in 1939, when...
...Gaulle vetoed Britain's admission to the Common Market. But while other members of the Six were varyingly irritated by De Gaulle's way of saying non and disappointed by Britain's exclusion, few at the time could have predicted the depth and duration of distrust that De Gaulle has stirred in Europe. Among the Six, who have been deadlocked on all major issues ever since, there is increasingly widespread apprehension that France's adamantly self-centered policies may have dealt the deathblow to the European Community that was envisaged by its founders. In Brussels last...
...atmosphere of equality and mutual respect. One thing is certain: the surest way to prevent equality is to convince everyone of such a thesis. Paranoid presuppositions rapidly become self-fulfilling prophecies. The ideal of equality is not refuted, it is merely rendered historically impossible by ideologies which generate racial distrust...
...transport for their own retreat, leaving many Italians to freeze to death in the Russian winter. They also gleefully filmed Italians fleeing from battle. Mussolini received a letter from a soldier at the front: "Among the officers of both higher and lower rank a general feeling of rancor and distrust against the Germans is generally predominant here." It was no coincidence, notes Deakin, that many Italians who had fought in Russia joined the partisans when they returned to Italy...
...last fall if he wins the injunction case Monday. These pickets, he claims privately will be peaceful, but at meetings he is far more sympathetic to those who advocate violence if necessary. And violence may be needed just to coerce miners now working to join the protest. Many distrust Gibson or feel he cannot win. Gibson knows this, retorting that "we have some of the yellowest men in the world in this country...