Word: standoffishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prewar Russia it was not healthy to be seen talking to foreigners. The doctors of the Cheka-prescribed a Siberian rest cure for comrades who mingled too freely. With Siberia in mind, Moscow maidens are standoffish...
...Russian girl. Russian bureaucracy ordered her to Siberia to keep her away from Correspondent X. The order was rescinded, but she was removed from Moscow. The correspondent returned to the U.S. After brooding a bit, he took his problem to Wendell Willkie, with whom the Russians had not been standoffish...
...vast majority of the American people live much as we do and have the same religions and much the same politics. That is why the United States boys have come thousands of miles to help us win this war." >"Remember that British people have a reputation for being standoffish, and anything you can do to dispel this illusion will help to foster good feeling. . . . The first time an American approaches the counter and asks 'Howya, baby?' you will probably think he is being impudent. By the time several dozen men have said it, you will come...
There was a further grave question that took the situation deep: What of General Charles de Gaulle, and his legions of Frenchmen who had worked and fought for freedom since June 1940? The U.S. State Department had been consistently sniffish and standoffish toward them; were they still to be ignored...