Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flesh and confront his wife with it. "No," she would cry, "it is not true! The boy was only a child." Then, for a while, her husband would believe, and the couple would find an evanescent moment of happiness-only to lose it again in a new surge of distrust...
...Pathfinder, The Pioneers and The Prairie-shorn away the interminable love passages and faded humor, deftly stitched the rest together to fit into one handsome volume. Modern readers may smile at some of Cooper's dialogue, written in the days before Mark Twain cleared the air ("Manifest no distrust," says their escort to two beautiful girls wandering through Indian-infested forests, "or you may invite the danger you appear to apprehend"). Cooper still stands out as master of action-Indian wars, deer hunts, sleigh rides, combat with wild beasts, the spring run of bass-action in which the great...
...there, however, much chance of getting India to join an American-inspired area alliance. Hatred of Pakistan is strong, and the recent U. S. arms aid to that country increased distrust of American intentions. Furthermore, America is still tied to colonialism by its support of France in Indo China, and Indians do not like to admit that Red China is the new colonial power in Asia...
Paris' thin-skinned dailies erupted in a rash of indignation. Le Monde accused Brisson of "sowing doubt and distrust." Left-wing Combat answered by attacking the U.S.: "I would say the stock of the U.S. has never fallen lower, whereas that of France is rising visibly . . . I would say that if Germany has really become so soon a confidential partner, one should not have been so stupid as to crush...
...most slashing attack came from the small, pro-Mendés-France intellectual weekly, L'Express, edited by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (TIME, June 14). Gasping at "the audacity of telling us that distrust is everywhere in America and that Mr. Foster Dulles . . . cherishes a lot of mental reservations about the chief of the French government," L'Express lumped Brisson and Le Figaro with "those wretched persons who dug a ditch for France . . . who twice a year sold Americans on the great Indo-China illusions . . . who sold the prestige of France in Asia and the young graduates...