Word: distrusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morals and politics will reassert themselves more strongly. Capitalism's big problem, he feels, is not really economic, but political-the "problem of establishing itself as the arsenal, not only of production, but also of hope and meaningful freedom to the anonymous hundreds of millions who may otherwise distrust us [and] take arms against...
...distance feud with the House Un-American Activities Committee.Chairman Harold H. Velde infuriated him by talking about searching for Communists in the ranks of U.S. churchmen. The bishop made some pointed remarks about "vermilion vigilantes"-a term he said he invented to describe those who created as much national distrust as Reds themselves, but had so much "yellow in their makeup" that another color was needed to describe them. In a speech on the floor of the House, California's Congressman Donald L. Jackson made a reckless response: "The good bishop has been to the Communist front what...
Like many of his countrymen, the sere old peasant Pierre Talabard nursed a deep and lifelong distrust of all that exists beyond the confines of his 37-acre farm in the Allier, 200 miles south of Paris. He worked the rich soil on which he was born 63 years ago, hid what little money he possessed under his mattress, and left the farm only rarely, to stand in silence while his ruddy-cheeked wife Louise haggled with some neighbor over the sale of a family calf. Pierre's distrust of the outside world was in no way softened when...
This change in attitude, then, is the cause of the mounting restrictions upon academic freedom that the CRIMSON has chronicled for the last five years. Every timid administrator, every repressive rule, every indignantly patriotic a legislator feeds upon this distrust, and doing so, increases it vehemence. This year's novelty, the Congressional investigations, are but one, albeit the most gaudy manifestation of the scapegoat temper. You can call the Veldes and Jenners whatever you like: ambitious intolerants, "junketeering gumshoes," or violator of the spirit of due process of law. But the volume of their fan mail testifies to the faithfulness...
...defenses of education are hollow if they issue only from within university walls. In the long run, the only effective antidote to this distrust lies in elements of the public itself. Let respected citizens--trustees of universities and others whose loyalty is unquestioned--speak up in defense of universities. Let them cast their defense in the same terms of anti-Communism as the attacks have been. For the anti-Communist record of American universities is a long and proud one, needing of respected advocates and full publicity. If these tangible fruits of academic freedom become as much a part...