Word: trust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientists, then we must expect distrust and eventual aggression from nations claiming to be fearful for their own safety. . . . If, however, we give the "secret" to an international control commission, we i) show the Russians (against whom, after all, this secrecy is being directed) that we are ready to trust them, i) give a strong impetus for success of the United Nations Organization, 3) furnish a strong moral persuader to other nations to follow our example in cosmopolitan behavior, and 4) lose nothing which we won't lose shortly in any event, if we haven't already done...
...dollars and a lot of time on it, so why give the secret away?" ¶ Dorothy Thompson declared that the U.S. could not give the bomb away because it did not own it: the world's scientists had given it to the "western world" to keep in sacred trust. Most scientists disagreed with her. Later, in a bit of atomic whimsy, Columnist Thompson wrote: "Scene: A ward in Bellevue. A screaming bearded gentleman is being hustled into a straitjacket. Guard: 'Completely coo-coo. Found him trying to board a ship. Yelled he was going to the Big Three...
Britain, as depicted by its collaborating Opposition and Government spokesmen last week, still put much of its trust in the United Nations Organization, still spoke of the Big Three in the present tense. Britain still wanted to get along with Russia. But Britain also wanted to be prepared not to get along with Russia. U.S.British understanding had long been Britain's second line of diplomatic defense; now, if the U.S. was willing, it would be the first line...
...trust we are not going to put pressure on the United States [to disclose its practical production methods...
...excitement over the pen was not limited to Gimbel's counters. A month ago, Thurman Wesley Arnold, hiring out his trust-busting talents to Reynolds, had filed suit in Wilmington's Federal Court for $1,000,000 (treble damages) against Eversharp Inc. and Eberhard Faber Corp. on a familiar Arnold charge: violation of the antitrust laws. The two defendants, Arnold claimed, had tried to "prevent mass distribution" of the Reynolds pen until they could 1) get rid of their own obsolete stocks, and 2) produce a ballbearing pen of their own on the basis of patent rights acquired...