Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many generations has made them see that whatever the Government, aristocratic or popular-front, German or North American, their life will be the same. . . . They fight over futile things, and they outdo each other in trying to say the last and most hurting word, in increasing the confusion and mistrust...
...vacuum compounded of mistrust and indecision in the Senate, "studies" by the State Department's studious Adolf Berle-and a man to head the U.S. delegation to the forthcoming conferences. The man: ex-U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew, a good diplomat who nonetheless knew nothing about aviation, until he got his new assignment two weeks ago. The only other certainty was that no U.S. air "expert" liked Britain's well-ordered I.A.T.A. All sides were quick to point out that Britain, as the No. 1 sea power, had never seen fit to call for such...
...want to know news such as that at the time it is news. Such withholding until circumstances are auspicious - to stir up public feeling during a war-bond drive- makes me sick, and must make thousands of other American citizens extremely cynical and unhappy at the evident mistrust held by responsible authorities of the average American citizen...
...groups [in the U.S.] which are afraid of a victorious movement forward of the Red Army and the Allied Armies." In Willkie's brief for wholehearted cooperation with Russia, based on "simple American common sense," Pravda discovered "a rotten smell of familiar anti-Soviet slanders designed to cause mistrust toward the Soviet Union...
...before had so much concrete data on Russia's military strength and prospects. The Russians had for months been given the details of Anglo-U.S. strategy, but apparently had never quite believed that London and Washington were being wholly frank. Evidently, a large and crippling area of mistrust had been cleared...