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Sovereign Trust. In pursuing this policy, Rhee may well be moved by real distrust of Korea's manipulating politicians. But there is something more to his actions than counter-manipulation: his passionate belief that he governs by sovereign right conferred on him by the Korean people. This belief he clearly demonstrated in his row with the National Assembly last year. According to Korea's five-year-old constitution, the Assembly elects the President. Rhee's term being about to expire, the Assembly wished to exercise its constitutional right. Since the majority were opposed to Rhee, this meant...
Behind the amendment is a spirit of hedging, not against present danger, but presumed future danger. It reveals a distrust of presidential motives and assumes an executive penchant for subverting national liberty...
...into canals to irrigate 80,000 acres of their land. Yet many black farmers cannot understand the need for the project. Used to primitive subsistence-level farming, they fear any experiment as a possible short cut to starvation; accustomed to being victimized by landowners and loan sharks, they deeply distrust any help offered with seemingly altruistic motives. Their attitude has always been: "If a farm agent knows some better way of farming, why isn't he busy making money at it instead of telling us about...
Dallas and Fort Worth are only 30 miles apart-almost as close, one might say, as two tomcats in a shoe box-and this proximity has bred in citizens of both cities a splendid sense of mutual distrust. Nevertheless, back in 1941 when it became evident that the airports of both towns were getting outmoded, they joined forces to plan a huge, jointly owned field midway between the two cities. Then Dallas representatives made a horrible discovery: the field entrance was to be a mile and a half closer to Fort Worth than to Dallas. They walked...
There were other objections. The supposed benefits of revaluation would not extend to countries with small gold reserves, such as France and Italy, which are most in need. It was even debatable whether revaluation would bring gold out of hiding; it might only increase hoarders' distrust of paper money. And even though revaluation would artificially increase the value of a nation's gold stocks, it would not stop the drain. Only a balance between imports & exports could do that. If the balance were achieved, then even a small gold supply, such as France had, would be ample...