Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adenauer: But you can't really distrust the Americans. You've met Eisenhower. You know what kind...
...peaceful co-existence [Britain] will be of dwindling value in the eyes of our American friends, who will also very quickly revert to their traditional distrust of colonial empires. Moreover, our economy has been more disturbed than any other by rearmament, and our trade more damaged by strategic embargoes. Both will need drastic reorganization if peace has indeed broken out. In brief, the economic and political independence which we forfeited as a result of the cold war is likely to be forced upon us very soon. In an era of American-Russian understanding, we shall have to fend for ourselves...
...lesson was administered principally by a member of Adenauer's own Christian Democratic Party, Richard Jaeger, 42, chairman of the Bundestag's Security Committee. Jaeger, whose distrust of generals is exceeded only by his scorn for Prussians, is by heritage and career a Bavarian (which, as regional patriotism goes among Germans, is something like being a Texan). Jaeger regards it as his everlasting misfortune that, when he was born, his parents happened to be in Berlin, deep in the heart of Prussia. "The course Germany took under Prussia's leadership," he warned the Bundestag recently, his eyes...
...founder of the C.I.O., is one of the few labor leaders who have publicly expressed themselves on the subject of Walter Reuther. He referred to him as a "pseudo-intellectual nitwit." Labor leaders generally dislike his metallic personal qualities-the iron will, the tinny personality, the brass nerve. They distrust his power and his policies...
...variety in their background, income, jobs, accent and future, there is a common feeling threading through the different levels of French youth. It is some mixture of disorientation, disgust, disinterest, disappointment and dis enchantment, all resulting in me fiance - a distrust for the powers that be. There is, lying deep down below the soil, a seed of revolt. It may never burst into violent revolution...