Word: distruster
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...Fear of You." NATO, in fact, became his passion. So great was his distrust of Russia's postwar ambitions that in 1948 he bluntly told Andrei Vishinsky that Belgium's foreign policy was based on fear: "Fear of you, fear of your government, fear of your policy." NATO, he decided, was Western Europe's only chance. Spaak saw the Atlantic Alliance as much more than military: "NATO must also be the political center of the West. It serves no purpose to make a purely military alliance if we have not learned to live together in peace...
Conquering Distrust. For the 52-year-old writer, the workshop at Watts has been his toughest task since the days when he prowled the docks gathering material for the screenplay of On the Waterfront. When the Westminster Association announced his first class, ten young Negroes signed up, but only two bothered to show. Undiscouraged, Schulberg kept at it, eventually conquered the distrust of his students. Now he has 18 regulars, ranging from boys in their teens to unemployed rniddle-aged workers...
...Distrust of Freedom
...Viet Cong of the South, there are other problems. One of the biggest is the presence of the 30,000 North Vietnamese regulars that Giap has sent down the Ho Chi Minh trail in the past year. Regional distrust and dislike between northerners and southerners in Viet Nam is centuries old, and, says one expert in Saigon, "the southern Viet Cong have long been afraid of a Red Napoleon." They now have one: half the main-force Viet Cong units not tied down to static defense are led by North Viet Nam officers, and there have been major seedings...
...completely dead. At the end of January a majority of students at the Divinity School signed a petition which was sent to Congress opposing any form of conscription on the grounds that it was un-Christian, contrary to American ideals, and self-defeating since it bred international misunderstanding and distrust. As war became more imminent, such protests became more unusual, and an increasing number of students at the University entered some form of voluntary military training...