Word: distrusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authority can be created to end this state of affairs, the country will be only too ready to resort to it. The difficulty, however, lies in the word "impartial." Both Capital and Labor, by reason of their long sojourn in an atmosphere of bitterness and antagonism, have come to distrust one another in an unreasoning way which is hard to remove. There will be great difficulty in persuading either party that any given tribunal (especially one possessing extensive powers) will not be under the control of their opponents, and inimical to ther own interests. The Kansas court, however, does...
...Governor Allen comes from the most typically American state--the most intelligent on the whole and the most progressive. He represents the central corps of Americanism, which, being interpreted, means the belief in the ability of the average man to look after himself; a distrust of the power of the mob whether organized or not; a profound belief in representative government and a willingness to support it with all one's power and resources, and at the same time a belief that the government should know its place and keep...
...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...