Word: distruster
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...Buddha's birth and the first anniversary of their successful campaign against President Ngo Dinh Diem, they plainly showed themselves a growing force in South Viet Nam. Significantly, neither Premier General Nguyen Khanh nor U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge was present at the ceremonies - a reflection of growing distrust of Buddhist aims...
...March on Washington: "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to the slums and ghettoes of our Northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed." King added, "The marvelous militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead to a distrust of all white people..." King's first statement is based on a correct assumption: many Negroes believe somehow the situation will be changed. However, this is an essentially ahistorical solution based on an old testament conception of history which is mostly mythical; and a new testament conception of history, called saving...
King's second exhortation that "militancy must not lead to a distrust of white people" has not been heeded. For, the failure of non-violent strategy among whites has bred protracted frustration among Negroes, helped justify Negro militancy and irrational Negro racism which are full of suspicion and hate for whites...
...Attitude. Above and beyond all this spring growth was the warm breeze from Washington. The President of the U.S. went before the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see THE NATION) and spent a chatty hour appealing for an end to suspicion and distrust between Government and business. After the speech, Harvey Aluminum President Lawrence Harvey said: "This signals a new attitude on the part of bureaucrats-business is your friend, work with it." Businessmen believe that Johnson thinks the way they think, point out that he is the first President since Herbert Hoover to have had successful...
...display of distrust was understandable, for the huddle brought together, for the first time in a year, the leaders of the country's three warring factions: Neutralist Premier Souvanna Phouma, pro-Communist Pathet Lao Chief Prince Souphanouvong, and General Phoumi Nosavan, boss of the right-wing forces. Prompted by Souvanna Phouma, the "summit" was to discuss how the Pathet Lao might be brought back to Souvanna's coalition government-which the Reds fled when new fighting broke out a year...