Word: mistrust
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...Many among the democracies fear and mistrust Soviet Russia. They dread the inroads of an economic order that would be destructive of their own. Such fear is weakness. Russia is neither going to eat us nor seduce us. That is ... unless our democratic institutions and our free economy become so frail through abuse and failure in practice as to make us soft and vulnerable. The best answer to Communism is a living, vibrant, fearless democracy-economic, social, and political. All we need to do is to stand up and perform according to our professed ideals. Then those ideals will...
...Malaya, Weller found equally omi nous differences. British mistrust of native qualities was paralleled by Malayan hatred for the 2,000,000 Chinese in their midst...
...Tuesday's elections sharply underline a significance far larger and far more ominous than any simple reaction against a New Deal adjusting too slowly to the management of a nation at war. The 1942 elections, held less than a year after Pearl Harbor, are a vote of mistrust in the president who saw what the war would mean to American before its outbreak in Europe--and the chose for American the part of courage and the part of right. The American people today place their trust in the Republican Party--the party of pre-Pearl Harbor isolation...
...Fighting French had a tougher, more thankless job. From the Vichyfrench administration they had inherited two headaches: food scarcities, caused by a year's British blockade, and a Syrian mistrust of anyone who spoke French. For the first headache the British supplied an antidote in shipments of wheat, rice, coffee. For the second headache General Catroux had a prescription: a promise of post-war independence. But to President Attasi the Fighting French were political nobodies; he refused to negotiate with them. Ousting Attasi and his ministers, Catroux named as president a Syrian whose chief virtue was his willingness...
...anything but meaningless. They knew that the Government had perforce solved most of its fiscal worries in the war years by printing money. They knew that fiscal reform, the main point of which had been Government assumption of the land tax, had not worked too well. They knew that mistrust of the Government's money had driven many Chinese, rich & poor, to selfish hoarding, particularly of rice...