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Liberalism cannot succeed here in Harvard, nor can it succeed on a national scale, unless it protects itself from calculated communist infiltration. Those same communists who cooperate so admirably on certain short-term programs not only create a general distrust of liberalism among the American people, but will turn violently upon liberalism in every case in which it opposes the totalitarian communist program. Failure to drive the communists from liberal groups can only serve to imperil and finally destroy the liberal movement. Philip Rahn...
...become fashionable of late to distrust all organizations of nations. Conditioned by the failures of their fathers, this generation has come to sneer easily at the attempts of men to compromise. In a sense, a degree of healthy cynicism may prove to be the attitude under which controversial countries can best conciliate. Twenty years ago a spiritual failure of the League of Nations was the generally blithe assumption that the "spade would work by itself." The inability to understand that an assembly of states is only a tool which must be used by its members was the flaw that destroyed...
...chief causes for the split between East and West at Paris and for the queasy state of affairs between this nation and Russia has been the mutual distrust between our two nations. For Russia, this suspicion goes back to memories of an American expeditionary force in Vladivostok and years of non-recognition by this country. And, in the United States, distrust of the Comintern has flared up with new intensity in direct ratio to every instance of Russian obstructionism of Slavic temperamentalism in the United Nations. The principal problem of the Paris peacemakers has been to allay the fear...
...Gaulle: "Elliott, De Gaulle is out to achieve one-man government in France. I can't imagine a man I would distrust more...
That really ignited Phil Donnelly. He flayed the union leaders for urging police officers to "break the laws," derided their "brazen scheme to go underground." The mere existence of the union, he cried, would "breed divided loyalty, suspicion, distrust and confusion." A strike by a police department, he said, "would be a rebellion against government itself...