Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist party's troubles in China are not over. An immense problem of organization and leadership now confronts it. There is evidence that millions of peasants and businessmen who have suddenly swarmed into rural cooperatives and urban state enterprises dislike and distrust the new order as much as they ever did. The same accounts attest that thousands of new organizations, brought into being to brainwash the new recruits, are little more than paper houses. It is predictable that within a few weeks or months the same leaders who now cry triumph will again be berating their terrorist cadres...
What emerged in the Express, after editing by the Beaver's own crafty hand, was pretty tame stuff compared to Driberg's harsh portrait of a man who pursued power with "ruthlessness" and "want of principle," only to win widespread distrust, ridicule, disapproval and bantering affection, but no real power. Beaverbrook passed up Driberg's most damaging thrusts. Samples...
Frenchman and German may still distrust each other profoundly, but neither lets that stand in the way of business. Last year West Germany was France's best customer, buying $490 million worth of French goods. And France bought more from Germany ($432 million worth) than from any other country except the U.S. ($460 million...
...wreaths for colleagues' funerals, or turned up at the wedding of Chancellor Adenauer's daughter with a bouquet of exactly six carnations costing 14? apiece. Wish there were more like him in other countries, they said. But others, negotiating with him on occupation matters, acquired a distrust for his evasive tactics and figure juggling. His power grew. When Adenauer fell ill 'last fall, he was even mentioned as a likely successor...
...inadvertently, Author Ives gives a clue to her brother's political personality. Despite the devotion he inspires in those near him, the book once more conveys his unhappy faculty of creating distrust in the common man he seeks to champion. The cause is, perhaps, less his often-criticized highbrow manner than a certain remoteness springing from that remarkably sheltered and unruffled life. It was a life that appears today somehow divorced from a reality larger than family, Illinois or Princeton...