Word: mistrust
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...this point that the strange romance began. Casting aside the hard-boiled lessons of the violent '36 strike, turning volte face from the most hard-bitten mistrust of capital that thoroughly left-wing unionism can breed, the maritime unions looked to the shipping companies for aid and solace in the face of the most imposing rival their organizations had ever faced--the government. The fine hands of the potent labor lobby and the equally powerful shipping bloc can be seen in the two-way squeeze applied to the Merchant Navy idea (abandoned in the first year of the war), government...
...mild Mr. Attlee's-journey to the U.S.-his fourth in four years but his first as Prime Minister-seemed highly necesary. Apathy, mistrust and confusion hung over the relations between the Allied powers. The happy agreements on generalities at Potsdam had been blown sky-high by the failure in London. The way to make a fresh start seemed to be through Anglo-American understanding...
Some Congressmen at first were inclined to mistrust the May bill's sweeping delegation of powers to a nine-man, part-time board. Its members would be paid $50 a day (when working) to make decisions bearing with appalling directness on the survival of civilization...
Later, Ambassador Braden made a serious charge: "The recent campaign against myself and my country must have been instigated by foreign and Nazi elements. . . ." In a signed manifesto, 600 leading Argentines branded the anti-Braden campaign as an effort to "sow discord, mistrust . . . and hatred" in a Hitlerian fashion. Newspaper correspondents were even more forthright: they declared that Vice President Juan Domingo PerÓn had started the attack on Braden...
Typified by Argentina (see LATIN AMERICA), the crowding of belated neutrals and unsavory regimes to San Francisco's door heightened the sickly mood. A New York cartoonist pen-pointed the prevalent mistrust with a Satanic vision of Hitler and Hirohito (see cut), united for the peace and chortling: "You declare war on me, I declare war on you and we both go to San Francisco...