Word: distrusters
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According to overwhelming evidence from France, the alternative to interim recognition may well be lasting distrust among the western Allies, incalculable bitterness in France itself, the killing of Frenchmen by Frenchmen who will surely act for themselves if they do not have a mid-invasion government strong enough to deal with traitors. Frenchmen will as surely reject any attempt by De Gaulle, by the U.S., by Britain, by anyone to impose upon postwar France what France does not want...
...most of the advantages he and others had won for it. The Labor Minister's enormous powers over 33 million Britons, aged 14 to 64, enabled him to get on with the job, but not to keep his friends. Workers who had once followed him blindly came to distrust his close relationship with Churchill, his warm friendship with such Tories as Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, Minister of State Richard K. Law, Viscount Cranborne, leader of the House of Lords. A mounting rank-&-file revolt against Labor leaders in general and Bevin in particular produced a wave of unauthorized strikes...
...Pegler insinuates that under our contract ... we are preventing him from expressing his views in Chicago during the political campaign. The insinuation is typical of what we have come to dislike and distrust in Pegler. He knows, for he has been so informed, that we shall be glad to release the column immediately. . . "Goodby, Mr. Pegler...
...There is a continual slowdown in all work. . . . Officials appointed by us have been replaced with Fascists, and some removed by us for Fascist views have been reinstated. There is still graft, resulting in looting of food." Fascist youth organizations have reappeared under new names. Italians have come to distrust their liberators. The Allies seem to be losing both prestige and popularity...
...Market. "It is not that the people's distrust of the fighting nations' intentions has increased; it is much more than that. No political sector believes in the good intentions of any other, and worse still, they don't believe in their own. Nobody believes that tomorrow will be better than today, not for him, nor for his country, nor for the world...