Word: distruster
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...Party seemed more interested in ideological and moral purity than in political victory, and it was becoming increasingly clear that racial distrust and bureaucratic pettiness within the Party were making impossible an effective political effort on the national level...
...they are racists. As one active member of AAAAS put it, "I will stand on the firing line with anyone who will stand on the firing line with me." But again, few believe that any white person really will stand on the firing line. And if he will, they distrust his motives. Whites, they say, are attracted to the civil rights movement because they feel guilty, and will leave when that sense of guilt is alleviated...
...This distrust of white motives is behind statements like that of the Negro at the House seminar. What he was saying, in part, was that whites have no real stake in the movement, and so will not go beyond the "obviously moral" methods of non-violent protest. But there was more to his statement. There was also a deep-seated suspicion of paternalism on the part of many white volunteers...
...Distrust & Resentment. U.S. Jews were dismayed by the tone and spirit of the revision. Particularly offensive to them was the reference to conversion, which was not matched by any call for Moslems to become Christians. Perhaps the most telling criticism came from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel of Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary, a good friend of Cardinal Bea's, who has worked long and hard for better Christian-Jewish relations. "A message that regards the Jew as a candidate for conversion and proclaims that the destiny of Judaism is to disappear is bound to foster reciprocal distrust...
...believes that the task of Christians now is not to join in one church but simply to understand one another. His distrust of Harvard having long since died, he helped organize a Catholic-Protestant ecumenical dialogue there last year with Augustin Cardinal Bea of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity as chief speaker. Cushing is trying to raise $1,000,000 for a permanent ecumenical study center in Boston, and has given $100,000 to the Greek Orthodox seminary in Brookline...