Word: distrusters
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...secret diplomacy are closely interlocked. Secrecy always breeds misunderstandings between individuals, and, so far as diplomatic relations between nations are concerned, we are dealing with individuals: the diplomats. The Crimean War is a salient instance in which England went to war because of the individual distrust of her minister to Russia for the Czar Nicholas...
...trouble in the relations between capital and labor has always been the mutual distrust with which they have regarded each other. Employees always suspect that their employers is going to cut down their wages or increase their labors; employers are never sure that their men will not break their contracts; they do not even dare trust the words of the union leaders. The longshoremen's strike in New York is a good example of the failure of the men to abide by the decision of their representatives...
...spite of the excess profit tax. A maximum profit law would involve no end of red tape. Bringing to account those profiteers which are on the surface would be like applying a temporary remedy to vermin instead of getting at the cause of vermin. What encourages profiteering?--disorder, uncertainty, distrust...
First, personal dislike of the President. This causes a distorted distrust of the origins of the League and a hesitation before its possibilities...
...When you and I, brethren of the Phi Beta Kappa, are depressed over the prevalent violence of the educated classes, over their lack of serenity and poise, their easily wounded, vanity, their distrust of idealism, their disloyalty to moral leadership. we may find comfort in the words of Harvard's most distinguished graduate...