Word: mistrust
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...Mistrust & Innuendo. In his Cleveland speech, Stevenson also attempted to turn the tables on his opponents. He began with Ike's foreign policy adviser John Foster Dulles. "In December 1946," said Stevenson, "Hiss was chosen to be president of the Carnegie Endowment by the board of trustees, of which John Foster Dulles was chairman." Shortly thereafter, said the governor, Dulles refused to believe a Detroit lawyer who informed him that Hiss had a provable Communist record...
...twice refused to let Hiss resign after he had been indicted for perjury. Said Stevenson: "I bring these facts to the American people not to suggest that either General Eisenhower or John Foster Dulles is soft toward Communists ... I bring them out only to make the point that the mistrust, the innuendoes, the accusations which this [Republican] 'crusade' is employing threatens not merely themselves, but the integrity of our institutions...
...wish to plague My Lords with a mass of detail mainly repugnant to them," he wrote. "It should be sufficient to say that I have lost faith in the present governmental hierarchy and all that goes with it. Also I have never had any feeling but mistrust for the Americans who now appear to rule us." On the day a week later when Lieut. Commander Mars was supposed to report at Portsmouth, he stayed at home in London with his sick wife...
...Istanbul last week, the old and long-dying mistrust was set to rest: the old enemies were now allies. Schoolchildren waved paper Greek flags and shouted a newly taught word: "Zito!" (meaning "long live" in Greek) as King Paul and Queen Frederika debarked from the cruiser Helle. It was the first visit ever paid to Turkey by Greek monarchs. A gleaming white presidential train took the visitors off to Ankara for a station-side reception by President Celal Bayar and Premier Adnan Menderes. High point of the visit would come when the Greek monarchs placed a wreath on the tomb...
Held back by their dislike and mistrust of the French, the Vietnamese had been slow under Premier Huu's regime to join in the life-or-death fight against Red Rebel Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas. The Premier seemed more interested in nailing down Viet Nam's independence than in promoting a fighting partnership with the French. Bao Dai (and the French) thought the time had come for a stronger man, and the Emperor had constitutional power to make the change. The new man is no stooge of the French, but believes that first things come first...