Word: distrusters
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Trying to torpedo the conference, other Axis agents threw a spasm, of hate and distrust over the Americas. In most cases they had their ears pinned back...
Spalding was more concerned with the possibility of a fifth column, because of his general distrust of the Nipponese. He had not heard anything definite about sabotage, but said that it was very possible. This might be done by the aliens, but not by the naturalized group, which is definitely Americanized...
...clear that they would-that the outcome of the part of the United States in the Pacific phase of the world war can and must be independent of its phases in China, Russia, England, the Mediterranean; and in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Norway. These groups justly incite distrust and suspicion against themselves-their suggestions are so outstandingly preposterous...
...sort breeds not only contempt but disobedience. But the lieutenant who sees his captain or even his colonel staggering out of the bar at the officers' club will have the same feeling toward him as a private would, and at the same time the privates do not seem to distrust their sergeants after they have gone off together on a weekly tear. The very way in which the sergeant is taught to become a real influence over his squad is by living with them, eating with them, and getting to know them as well as he does his own brothers...
...carried out the policy of social direction that he helped to make famous. He was an individualist in his actions without adhering to laissez-faire; he was a collectivist in his program without adhering to the bureaucratic state. He had an abundant faith in human goodness and a tolerant distrust of human frailties. The strength of this precarious balance of thought lay in its being made up of a belief in the value of reason, an immense ethical fervor, a concrete and massive knowledge, and a firm insistence on our limiting ourselves to what is compassable. "When things become...