Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elegant, scholarly Pierre Brisson, 58, managing director of Paris' oldest daily, Le Figaro, shook up his staid readers and set off a fusillade of protest in the French press. Just back from his first trip to the U.S. in four years, Brisson reported: "In Washington, in New York, distrust is everywhere." Brisson, whose paper takes a dim view of Premier Mendés-France reported that Americans felt that France, by reneging on EDC, had gone back on her word. When Brisson argued that France is rightfully worried about Germany after three invasions, he reported that a top Washington...
...Britons] have always felt themselves to be set a little apart from the rest of the world. They have a distrust, which is not the same as dislike, of foreigners which would be incomprehensible to Americans accustomed through many years of immigration to accepting racial differences without surprise. But the post-war world has provided much evidence of a relaxation of the old British attitude. Self-sufficiency was obviously impossible to Britain and the Commonwealth in 1945. The minimum involvement in Europe consistent with European stability and British defense was Britain's aim. That minimum was a substantial effort...
Asked to describe the day in 1943 when he and his two colleagues discovered that their new method worked Dr. Weller said that their elation was strongly tempered with doubt. "You try something, you think it works, but it looks like something revolutionary, so you distrust your results and try it again and again," he said...
...uphill work." Cassandra now scorns Bevan's and Nehru's "neutralism" with the same scorn he once heaped on the U.S. He also advocates the same strong anti-Communist foreign policy that the U.S. has been advancing. Why did Cassandra change? Explains he: "When you lose your distrust and dislikes of a person, you are able to entertain his views with less prejudice. I've been to America seven times in the last year...
...recent years, similar suspicions have generally disappeared. As Dean Martin P. Catherwood admits, there is still some distrust of the School in various quarters in both business and labor. But this distrust is now limited to individuals and does not extend to whole industries or unions. The passage of time and the School's evident effort to do the job fairly and well have dispelled most delusions...