Word: distrusters
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...heat on Yugoslavia. Rumors spread that Germany had demanded the use of Yugoslav railways for the transport of equipment to Albania, that large German forces were being concentrated on Yugoslavia's borders. Purposes of this little war of nerves were to test the resistance of Yugoslavia, to create distrust of Belgrade in Athens and Ankara...
...Great Life (Dial; $3) veteran actor-director-playwright John Charles Nugent tells the warm, homely story of his trouping life from shabby road shows to Hollywood, draws his own technical conclusions from the wings rather than from the study, vents an oldtimer's distrust of directors who pronounce it "theatah" or, more especially, "thawtaw...
...When," asked General Maxime Weygand once in a moment of deep exasperation, "will the old man [Pétain] stop sleeping with that charcoal dealer from Chateldon [Laval]?" The distrust of the hard-bitten little soldier for the swarthy politician of the white tie was deep-seated and violent. It led many people in many capitals to speculate that Weygand might desert Vichy for Great Britain. Last week North American Newspaper Alliance's chubby, energetic Jay Allen flew to Marrakech, Morocco, scooped the world's press on Weygand's present political intentions: "I cannot give you answers...
...peoples, democratic or otherwise, who cannot adjust their institutions and choices to the needs of emergency decision are likewise doomed-for the opposite reason. If they cannot trust themselves to use the powers of their community for the common good-nay, the common life-they will not survive. Fear, distrust, suspicion-these are not the bases of vital power, States are not strong in proportion as their government is weak. Liberty is not secure in proportion as government has no power. Protection at home and abroad is the life of liberty. Protection against special groups at home and against warlike...
Hicks affirmed his distrust for any "leader or autocrat who sets himself up as being able to tell others what to do," and said that the example of Russia has shown us that "we must have democracy all the way, and that we can't possibly go from tyranny to a democratic government...