Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognition by this country. And, in the United States, distrust of the Comintern has flared up with new intensity in direct ratio to every instance of Russian obstructionism of Slavic temperamentalism in the United Nations. The principal problem of the Paris peacemakers has been to allay the fear and distrust between nations that is the legacy of World Wars...
...have not met one who wouldn't trade his enforced leisure for the chance to sweat at an honest job without the fear of losing what remains of his life...
...examination. That plan, partition, now looms as the one practical and almost acceptable solution to the Palestine dilemma, if the Jews are to have the feeling of "belonging" somewhere and if their escape from Europe is to be complete and final. At the same time, the Arab fear of an extensive Jewish overrunning of the Near East would be halted by the very fixed boundaries of the new states. Although relinquishing claim to some territory, the Arabs would gain by the increased trade and industry of the entire area. And Britain would retain her essential Middle Eastern military base without...
Most Americans understandably view Russia with considerable fear and suspicion, and an already critical situation is worsened by TIME's habit of damning the land of the Soviets on all occasions. TIME annoys by its devotion to a nationalistic American Century and by its attempts to smear, with seeming objectivity, all liberal groups as Red, Commie or Pinko, a set of terms that was once the exclusive property of the Hearst press. Good Democrats wince when, as a "newsmagazine," it refers to Republican election victories in terms of solemn rejoicing for the country, and scoffs at or discounts Democratic triumphs...
...Frenchmen crossed and recrossed the border as much as eight times a day to bring back Belgium's plentiful cigarets, chocolate, coffee, oranges, and other commodities rare in France. Smugglers of gold, diamonds and currency sauntered across the frontier with bulging suitcases. Police refused to stop them for fear of being considered strikebreakers...