Word: distruster
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...hold our tongues any longer. . . . If we intend to keep the "secret" of the bomb, in the face of almost universal opposition from scientists, then we must expect distrust and eventual aggression from nations claiming to be fearful for their own safety. . . . If, however, we give the "secret" to an international control commission, we i) show the Russians (against whom, after all, this secrecy is being directed) that we are ready to trust them, i) give a strong impetus for success of the United Nations Organization, 3) furnish a strong moral persuader to other nations to follow our example...
...liberators who were bringing with us the blessings of democracy. On the whole we are now taken to be moral slobs, mental deficients, and fools; and if Europeans now seek to milk us, we have only "Our Boys" to blame. It will take years to repair the widespread distrust of the U.S. produced, not by bombs or diplomatic deals, but by our half-educated, doltish youth...
...Publication of atomic research data will mitigate distrust, but complete national or international control of atomic research is impossible...
...fever chart of Big Power relations looked better last week. In Germany especially, distrust subsided. The conquerors were learning more about one another. They seldom liked what they learned, but unpleasant knowledge was less harmful than febrile suspicion...
...strict wartime censorship of news written by foreign correspondents. . . . Censorship in peacetime of all dispatches relating not only to military affairs, but to politics, economics, cultural affairs and to every aspect of life . . . destroys the value of foreign correspondents in a free world and has created a general distrust abroad of all news emanating from the Soviet Union. "Soviet censorship ... is dictatorial and arbitrary. . . . Some censors are insufficiently acquainted with the English language to understand the material submitted to them ... are often uninformed...