Word: distruster
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...week before, the strongly socialistic Mouvement de Liberation National, France's No. 2 Resistance group, had also met in Paris, roundly rejected a fusion with F.N. Basic reason: distrust of the F.N.'s Communist complexion. M.L.N. delegates assailed the new Party line laid down by Maurice Thorez, France's No. 1 Communist, who recently returned from wartime exile in Moscow (TIME, Dec. 11). Thorez had called for the disbanding of all Resistance militia, even Communist armed bands who had seized authority in some localities. "Public security," he said, "should be assured by the regular police...
...handsome, but revolution, war, power and, above all, will had abraded it into somber strength. The hair, which had been purplish black like most Georgians', and grew far forward on the low forehead, had turned grey. The eyes, which had once peered out from velvety depths of unfathomable distrust ("Lenin trusts Stalin," old Bolsheviks used to say, "and Stalin trusts nobody"), had acquired an expression almost of authoritative benevolence...
...perhaps the most stubborn fact of all was distrust. If the western Allies distrusted the aims of Russia, few could blame Marshal Stalin if he distrusted the aims of the western Allies. Europe was seething with social unrest. As the result of the war, immense political and social dislocations had taken place. Time & again Russia had demonstrated that she had a program, the will and the means to deal with this unrest. But neither Britain...
...until this mutual distrust could be allayed, a specter was haunting Europe-the specter of World...
...adoption of peacetime conscription would be a revolutionary change in fundamental American policies; to effect such a change ... under the emotional pressures of war ... is unwise. It is alleged in some quarters that unless Congress acts ... now ... compulsory military training will never be adopted. This rests on a distrust of the capacity of the American people which we do not share. It is to imply that the American people cannot arrive at a wise decision on a great issue through the democratic processes after a cool and deliberate debate...