Word: mistrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wendell Willkie is as bold as he is clever. He has influence and a following within the party not likely to be ignored. He will not permit it to be. . . . Republican leaders as a rule don't like Willkie. They never have. They mistrust him as another 'big cock of the roost,' stubbornly bent on having his own way, with contempt for all others whether of high degree or low, if you are not as smart as he is. But what to do about him? . . . Impossible to ignore Willkie; highly dangerous to defy...
...choice of Wavell, who has been trained in neither politics nor diplomacy, upset such expectations. But nothing could upset Indian mistrust of British motives, Indian resentment over the incommunicado imprisonment of Mohandas Gandhi, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and thousands of fellow nationalists. From New Delhi, TIME Correspondent William Fisher reported...
This postponement reawakened all of De Gaulle's old doubts, suspicions and mistrust of the U.S. policy which had pointedly ignored his movement for two years. The misgivings were not allayed when General Eisenhower tartly announced that the Fighting French announcement of the request and the delay surprised...
...Many among the democracies fear and mistrust Soviet Russia. They dread the inroads of an economic order that would be destructive of their own. Such fear is weakness. Russia is neither going to eat us nor seduce us. That is ... unless our democratic institutions and our free economy become so frail through abuse and failure in practice as to make us soft and vulnerable. The best answer to Communism is a living, vibrant, fearless democracy-economic, social, and political. All we need to do is to stand up and perform according to our professed ideals. Then those ideals will...
...Malaya, Weller found equally omi nous differences. British mistrust of native qualities was paralleled by Malayan hatred for the 2,000,000 Chinese in their midst...