Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November the Big Four Foreign Ministers will hold the first high-level discussion of policy on Germany since the ill-fated Potsdam conference. By then the democracies may have learned that their cause is by no means lost in Europe, that panic fear of Russia is unjustified; and the Russians may have learned that expansionist maneuvering is not the path to their cherished goal of "security...
...people gave the new demigods of Paris more fear than faith. Singed by cynicism, yet even more desperately concerned with the issues at stake, the world of 1946 had lost the loud and holy zeal with which it had hoped for eternal peace...
Good Propagandist. Finns cannot quite account for Russia's relatively lenient treatment. "Russia is mostly interested in getting the reparations from us," some say, "and therefore is letting us alone." Others proudly think that Russians fear to risk a long struggle with a people so passionately devoted to liberty. Another favorite explanation: "the Kremlin considers its present policy toward Finland good propaganda, especially for the Scandinavian countries." Many call their land "Russia's model protectorate...
...Finns are resigned to keeping on "friendly" terms with Russia, building up their export trade, following a Red-Green domestic policy that has not yet resulted in large-scale nationalization of industry or redistribution of land. The Finns are moving slowly and quietly, like a man tiptoeing for fear he'll wake a rough-&-ready neighbor...
...antics were dismissed this week by the editor of the American, Journal of Public Health, Professor C.E.A. Winslow of Yale, as no more helpful than beating tom-toms-"reminiscent of the days of yellow fever and the shotgun quarantine of a century ago, when people were driven by blind fear, ignorance and superstition." Added Winslow: "There is no reason to believe that improved methods of sewage treatment and disposal, more rigid standards for the purification of water supplies, or the dusting of DDT over a city . . . will have any measurable effect on the incidence of infantile paralysis...