Word: mistrust
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more or less automatically, behind any war, however ill-considered, distant or cruel, provided only that Communists could be identified on the other side. Instead the American people have watched the collapse of the assumptions on which the Vietnam War was launched. In vindication of an intelligence none should mistrust, a very large number have reached the inevitable conclusion. The assumptions that took us there have been shown by the history to be false. Therefore we should not be there. The reasons that took us into the conflict having disappeared, why do we remain...
...world economy caused by the protectionism of the Depression in the '30s. Its failure, coming on top of Europe's new climate of economic nationalism fostered by Charles de Gaulle, could well turn the free world back toward commercial-and political-policies of suspicion and mistrust...
Despite their pleas for "friendly relations," their relationship is very swiftly--and unfortunately--degenerating into one of competition and back-biting, rather than cooperation. This friction is to some extent the result of temporary misunderstandings and mistrust. But it will become more extensive--and more detrimental--unless both sides recognize their common ground...
...Latter Mistrust. It was not done out of admiration for De Gaulle, whose narrow nationalism der Alte found an emotional atavism. Rather, in the absence of genuine European unity, Adenauer fell back on the keystone relationship of France and Germany for the well-being of Europe. And he kept right on working for the larger goal of a united Europe after his retirement as Chancellor. In the last month of his life, before he came down fatally with flu and bronchitis, Adenauer met with Chancellor Kiesinger and "urgently impressed on me," said Kiesinger, "this great concern of his life...
...recent years, der Alte came to mistrust American policy around the world. He wanted the U.S. to withdraw from Viet Nam, believing that it was diluting Washington's interest in Bonn and Europe. Every fresh move toward détente with Russia added to his unease about the course of Atlantic affairs. Much of his unseemly sniping at his successor, Ludwig Erhard, stemmed from his worry that Erhard was too uncritically-and undemandingly-pro-American...