Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were shouts, earnest but in questionable taste, from the sidelines. From Fulton, Mo., Winston Churchill urged a forcing game to the net: show military strength while there is still time. From Columbus, Ohio, the Federal Council of Churches advised a back court, patball game: trust the neighbors and believe in God (see INTERNATIONAL). The U.S. wavered between those conflicting attitudes...
Other newspapers were somewhere in between, but generally viewed with distaste and alarm the kind of military marriage proposed by Churchill. The consensus: such an alliance would only provoke Russian suspicion, already acute, and pull the props of trust and confidence right out from under UNO-or so they feared...
...leading spokesman for Europe's socialist democrats, Britain's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, who has said he detests Fascist Spain, was well aware of the desperately delicate situation. He and non-socialist democrats were struggling against Communism for the political soul of Europe, for the trust of men who would never again trust those who tolerated Franco. The U.S. was more remote from the scene, but as the leading power of the democratic coalition, the U.S. was not remote from the responsibility...
...hand of the Supreme Allied Commander himself. One read: "The fundamental human rights . . . result from the age-old struggle of man to be free. They have survived the exacting test for durability in the crucible of time and experience, and are conferred upon this and future generations in sacred trust to be held for all time inviolate." Asked if he had seen the Constitution, one Japanese quipped: "Has it been translated into Japanese...
...have the feeling it is the only way. I have the feeling it is the best way to win Soviet respect and Soviet trust. Respect must precede trust, and both are indispensable to peace...