Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dead. Establishment of diplomatic relations with the important countries of Europe, moreover, brings peace with the outside world a condition new to Soviet experience. With pressure from without removed, Russian national feeling wanes. Now for the first time the Russian has leisure to survey conditions at home. And the suspicion prevails that all is not well...
...attributed the defeat of Premier MacDonald to a growing suspicion in the minds of the English people that London had become too closely allied with Moscow, and that Sovietism had infested the Labor government...
...Mexico, and for uniformity of tariff between the two countries, a decided gain for Japan's rising commerce. That the people of Mexico believe that intervention by the United States is always in favor of American capitalists or equally odious native exploiters, that the Mexican electorate resents the suspicion that the United States exercises any control over its government or diplomacy,--are facts, unfortunate, yet admitted. That Japan resents the discourteous establishment of a prejudicial immigration law, that Japan fears the naval preponderance secured to the United States by the 5-5-3 ratio of the Washington Conference,--are also...
...politics when they have nothing more important to attack. Fearful as is the American electorate that somewhere votes are being bought and the will of the "Peepul" defeated, and vague as is the average man's knowledge of the intricacies of political machinery, the subject never fails to arouse suspicion of dishonesty, graft, fraud, and all the other manias that beset the zealous voter...
When he cites as proof of his accusation against the graduates, that if anyone should ask them what part in the world war was played by Peter the Great or Frederick II. . . . by the treaty of Utrecht or Paris, and should be met by indignant silence, the suspicion is aroused that a pedantic hankering after specific facts has clouded his conception of what education is, or ought to be. One might retain from his schooling the answers to all the above questions, and much more besides, and yet lack education in its true sense...