Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peaceful co-existence as long as the capitalist countries did not impede or attack her. From the Communist point of view seek peaceful coexistence as a foreign policy while as a political policy the Communist International tried to under mine capitalist governments. That made the capitalist world mistrust everything Russian...
With good reason to mistrust the U. S. S. R.'s revolutionary political policy, the capitalist countries went on to mistrust her nonaggressive foreign policy. Two dates in recent history seem to mark abrupt changes in that policy: 1934, when Russia joined the League of Nations, and 1939, when she signed her Non-Aggression Treaty with Germany. Neither act was a change of objective, but merely a change of method...
...young biologist and a young poet. Part social club, part scientific society, its members with the aid of some paid employes conduct on an amateur scale something vaguely resembling FORTUNE'S survey. They publish their findings in a periodical titled Us. In a recent issue Us reported that "mistrust of the newspapers is a commonplace with every section of the population...
Best fiscal-aim-political opinion in London this week is that the deeply ingrained British mistrust of any "plan," and the proud memory of how many times Britain has successfully "muddled through," will continue dominant at the Exchequer. On the present scale, one group of Government experts believes that Britain can muddle along for another twelve months without more "extraordinary measures." After that the measures will either have to become extraordinary indeed or some rich friend-say, the U. S. -will have to carry the Empire on the cuff...