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...first time in five years Batavia echoed to the burst of festive fireworks rather than lethal gunfire. Food parcels were distributed to the poor as the people prepared for a great selamatan (feast). Forgetting for once their mutual distrust, the city's rival Dutch and Indonesian mayors joined forces on the Palace balcony to scatter 1,000 kilograms of copper coins over the jubilant throngs below...
...confusion in social theories such as progressive education and in our personal ways of life "makes us distrust all institutions, and even ourselves," he asserted, calling the manner in which present-day businessmen "compartmentalize" their lives "a typical middle-class evasion of the issues...
Neither age, pain, nor liquor had dulled the intent and raffish gleam in his eye. His distrust of property men, doctors and small children was undiminished. His voracious love of life and laughs had not failed, and he still eyed the world with the spurious heartiness of a man with an ace up his sleeve. But his body was flabby and old, and his fiery, bulbous nose had become a shocking badge of suffering. Last week, after 67 years, death finally hoodwinked W. C. Fields, the noblest confidence man of them...
Third, I & E materials and supplies maps, fact sheets, etc.,--were hopelessly inadequate until the end of 1944. The greatest obstacle to effective I & E functioning was the psychology of the average G.I. Coupled with his dislike and distrust of anything military was his resistance toward compulsory education. The average American, brought up in perhaps the closest knit individualistic environment in the world, doesn't like to be told anything. Rabble rousers and the Hearst press can fool him easily with sly propaganda, but direct instruction, though conducted with the finest intentions, leaves him cold and unaffected. In effect...
Mistake. In a few months Zhdanov turned his distrust in another direction. As boss of Leningrad, he was acutely conscious of a danger he saw from nearby Finland. His fear led him into the one great boner of his career: he persuaded Stalin that the Finns would collapse easily. After the courageous Finnish defense ended that delusion, Stalin made a somber crack to Zhdanov: "So things are going normally on the Finnish front, huh? Well, when the Finns get to Bologoe [halfway between Moscow and Leningrad], let me know...