Word: distruster
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...exchange of compliments, General Fiuza took occasion to deplore "the sinister infiltrations . . . that are penetrating our armed forces." General Estilac, a leftist who has consistently refrained from getting tough with Communists in the army, answered that "unscrupulous agents of intrigue are trying to foment disunion and mutual distrust with unfounded, unpatriotic accusations impugning the honor of high government officials...
...Mussolini's latter-day empire molder mockingly in the African sun, bright new flags proclaimed the birth of the United Kingdom of Libya. A sage old Moslem spiritual leader became the world's newest King, Idris I of Libya. Three territories, separated by wide deserts and mutual distrust-Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Fezzan -were united under a Western-style parliament and a constitution scissored and pasted together from the laws of twelve other countries...
...ratified the Schuman Plan to pool Europe's coal and steel. One of two traditional enemies was willing to share with the other the very source of power and strength over which they had fought so often. It might be but a mere pinprick in the barrier of distrust. Yet through that pinprick shone a slim ray that might yet light the way to unity in Europe...
...people's attitude toward the Truman-Taft-Eisenhower choice is not the same as that of Republican businessmen and professional politicians. Millions of voters who distrust the Truman Fair Deal policies are keenly aware of their own rising living standards. This "we-never-had-it-so-good" line will not yield easily to the standard Republican attack on Truman's domestic policies. The voters, however, have one concern that dwarfs prosperity: the world conflict with Communism, the issue of war & peace. Eisenhower appears to millions as the man who can lead the country through the international crisis. Foreign...
...today in 1951, so long as our present partnership endures. . . I believe we have a much better than even chance of keeping peace. But the opposite is true, too. If ever, in a mood of impatience with each other, or by allowing distrust and suspicion to spread like poison ivy,* or even perhaps by some single act of folly, we were to allow the friendship and cooperation of our peoples to fade, we might well wake up one morning to find that we had touched off the signal for the third world war to begin...