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...distrust is easily pierced. Last Friday I visited Walker's Cafe, where the Rev. James J. had eaten right before he was murdered. As left the restaurant, several white gangs stared me from across the street. On my side of the groups of Negroes leaning against store- eyed me hostilely. Finally the loneliness new unbearable. I raised my eyes to a young man. "How are you, brother?" I whispered. A broad smile instantly spread across his face. , and his friends strolled up to shake hand. The whites across the street looked and then sauntered off. No doubt they too that...

Author: By Curtis Hessler, | Title: "Which Side Are You On?" | 3/24/1965 | See Source »

...struggle for world hegemony, ours is a holding action. An aggressive opponent will always find the most politically embarrassing ground on which to oppose you. Vietnam is no exception. To end this struggle between the Communists and the West a world police force is needed, but the powers distrust each other too much to make that possible. Until the police force becomes a reality, the U.S. must oppose the mass of human resources the totalitarians can marshal with everything at its command...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Toughminded and the Tenderminded | 3/9/1965 | See Source »

...dismay over the new hostility toward them was vented on Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and the CDU-which could conceivably lose the national elections in September over the Middle East fiasco, as CDU strategists privately admitted. But the issue went deeper than German politics. Protesting against the "new wave of distrust," Die Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth. For the sake of this generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Under the Moral Sword | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...defend them under all foreseeable circumstances, particularly a decade or two hence, when it may be disastrously involved in Latin America, Asia or Africa. And De Gaulle argues that the U.S. has always been "late" in entering European wars; yet the U.S. can reply with equal distrust that virtually since Waterloo, France has been gravely wanting as a resolute military power. The U.S. must look to a France after De Gaulle, with a large Communist vote and the political chaos of the Fourth Republic conceivably revived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE U.S. & EUROPE: THE WAITING GAME | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...many ways South Viet Nam's Thich Tri Quang personifies the saffron politicians. He entered the Buddhist Institute in Hue when he was 13, has traveled little, speaks neither French nor English. Though not without personal charm and even a certain detached charisma, he has the provincial's distrust of all things Western, refuses to meet with U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor on the ground that he is more comfortable dealing with lesser officials. The son of a farmer in what is now North Viet Nam, he went to Hanoi in his 20s, taught and edited a Buddhist magazine, helped found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Buddha on the Barricades | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

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