Word: distruster
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...narrowly based, and that if he could keep out the corrupt and reactionary old politicians, he would like to revive democracy in Egypt. In fact, his narrow little junta of officers have neither the competence, the imagination or the time to administer Egypt's economy; in their distrust of everything past and pro-Western, they have shut themselves off from the middle-class Egyptians who have experience in government, law and business. Last week Nasser called for candidates to list themselves for an election to be held on the eve of the revolution's fifth birthday next month...
Prejudice, distrust and intolerance lurk everywhere like the lions and leopards in the still dark forests, between the educated and uneducated, between tribe and tribe, between black, white and Asian. Proud white settlers in Rhodesia, who now consider themselves more African than European, refer contemptuously to their advanced black partners as "Fags," short for Federated African Gentlemen. The Moslem Fulani of Nigeria's north consider the energetic Ibos of the nationalistic, Christian and pagan east no better than barbarians...
...Mounting Distrust. The break has been swift and thorough. Only a year ago last January the Knight papers ran a glowing verdict by Jack Knight himself on Ike's first term. Wrote he: "The political phenomenon of our times is the almost childlike faith of the people in Eisenhower. One seldom hears a businessman teeing off on Ike for doing the very things that caused him to cuss out Roosevelt and Truman as 'Socialists.' The answer must be that our businessmen have changed with the times in terms of social attitudes and are glad the program...
Publisher Knight's first stirrings of distrust became evident last summer, when he warned of a new burst of inflation. His papers made their first direct attack on the President last January over one of the purely professional issues-the way advance news of the Eisenhower Doctrine was leaked to a few papers-that prompted some of the rare harsh press criticism of the Administration...
With publication of the $71.8 billion budget, Knight's mounting distrust of Eisenhower's fiscal philosophy hardened and deepened. He started lashing out at foreign-policy "fumbling," at the "incredible" Secretary of State, the weakening of the Western alliance; in his concern with Government costs he moved inevitably closer to isolationism...