Word: mistrust
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Unanswered Questions. French partisans of EDC mistrust Mendès. Last week Bidault snapped: "This man is either Disraeli or Kerensky," and went off to pick mushrooms in the Versailles woods. Now that Mendès has ticked off half of his allotted time, other Frenchmen, sympathetic to his aims but doubtful of his chances, are asking questions. Is Mendès an innocent in all but economic matters, surrounded by inexperienced intellectuals united only by their dislike of inertia? Or is he a self-disciplined realist who expresses a French mood of grim resolution? Or is he Kerensky...
...nervous breakdown, declared the Rev. Edward Aloysius Conway, S.J., associate editor of the Jesuit weekly America, at the commencement exercises of the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. "The mind of the nation is becoming troubled, and its nerves are already frayed . . . How else explain the rising mistrust of each other, the roaring bitterness, the ranging of Americans against Americans, the scapegoat hunts, the assault on freedom of opinion, the intolerance of opposition, the increase in calumny, demagoguery, bigotry and smear? I am afraid it is because fear and frustration abound: fear of the unseen death-laden struggle...
...three-way mutual security pact with both the Allies and the Soviet Union. Stevenson termed the plan "remote conjecture," however, and said that improving the present power balance was our immediate concern. Nowadays, he said, "our coalition speaks with many voices and many tongues. Intra-community bickering, conflict, and mistrust obscure the steady vision of extra-community danger. And as we saw in Europe, first in 1914 and again in 1939, a house divided against itself will fall...
...this area, where Latin American interest in intense, the Conference may produce tangible results. Sincere United states efforts to improve the economies of Latin nations will not only eliminate mistrust, but also help remove the breeding grounds of communism. In countries with backward economies communism has its greatest appeal. By bolstering its American allies, the United states can help safeguard the hemisphere from this threat. but economic cooperation will remain only a hope unless the present issue is settled and the air cleared for concerted action...
...give them an even chance with whites to climb to better jobs. Both Negroes and whites disliked the bonus plan under which Swift pays employees extra for output above "normal" standards. Only 16% said they wanted to see the system abolished, but an additional 55% viewed it with mistrust. ("They put it in a book, and only they have the book"). One trouble was that many workers did not understand how the plan operated ("It's bad! Like on my job-you can't hardly figure it out"). Father Purcell decided that "the worker does not like...