Word: distrusting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firm in his Confucian belief in the necessity of social harmony, Chen is convinced that what he most hates in Communism is belief in the necessity of the class struggle: "Communism in China will fail because it creates an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust within the family." Chen says he is not opposed to Socialism. He points to the Three People's Principles of Sun Yat-sen-San Min Chu I-nationalism, democracy and livelihood for the people. To him, the "People's Livelihood'' principle means, one day, social insurance, free health services and schools everywhere...
...Czarist or Bull Moose Russia could very conceivably have the present Soviet Government's aims in world affairs. Assuming this, the United States could still oppose Russian aims and distrust American Communists. But there would be no connection between our attitude towards Russia and our feeling towards Communists. The point, then, is that we should deal with Russia as we would with any great power and keep the issue of American Communists out of the realm of foreign affairs...
...first time in five years Batavia echoed to the burst of festive fireworks rather than lethal gunfire. Food parcels were distributed to the poor as the people prepared for a great selamatan (feast). Forgetting for once their mutual distrust, the city's rival Dutch and Indonesian mayors joined forces on the Palace balcony to scatter 1,000 kilograms of copper coins over the jubilant throngs below...
...confusion in social theories such as progressive education and in our personal ways of life "makes us distrust all institutions, and even ourselves," he asserted, calling the manner in which present-day businessmen "compartmentalize" their lives "a typical middle-class evasion of the issues...
Third, I & E materials and supplies maps, fact sheets, etc.,--were hopelessly inadequate until the end of 1944. The greatest obstacle to effective I & E functioning was the psychology of the average G.I. Coupled with his dislike and distrust of anything military was his resistance toward compulsory education. The average American, brought up in perhaps the closest knit individualistic environment in the world, doesn't like to be told anything. Rabble rousers and the Hearst press can fool him easily with sly propaganda, but direct instruction, though conducted with the finest intentions, leaves him cold and unaffected. In effect...