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Financial and political advantages of the sterling bloc have kept Strijdom in the Commonwealth until now. But in their hour of triumph. Nationalists tried to placate the English-speaking South Africans. Advised the Nationalist Transvaler: "Don't feel bad about the election . . . Leave your valley of mistrust and suspicion. The Nationalist Party has shown that language and culture rights-and money-of both sections are safe in its care." Added Strijdom: "Formidable and manifold problems are facing South Africa, and some of them can only be solved if cooperation between the two main language groups is strengthened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: God's Will | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

Castro's failure at this time does not imply popular support of the Batista regime. It indicates rather public apathy and possible mistrust of Castro's intentions and methods. Newsmen reported that outside of Government circles it is difficult to find anyone ready to say a kind word for General Batista. Although his position has been strengthened by Castro's current failure, Batista is in trouble, and everyone--including the strongman--knows...

Author: By Garcia Y Vega, | Title: Requiem for a Strongman | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

...achievement far too frequently turns out to be the very reverse of what we wanted: the second-year man under our system of traditional courses, examinations and grades emerges a puzzled fellow indeed, rapidly losing any feeling of his own progress or coming to mistrust the yardstick by which progress is measured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Suggests Revisions of Ph.D. | 11/1/1957 | See Source »

...real purpose of Angelo's trip was to become acquainted with his friend's wife. This he does rather successfully, and after a few moments of mistrust and pride, the wife, played by Madeleine Robinson, is spending her nights with Angelo...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Passionate Summer | 10/23/1957 | See Source »

...their own country who now form a restless and disaffected overload on Jordan's desert economy. Another who bears responsibility is Egypt's Nasser, whose hate-filled Radio Cairo outpourings and political intrigue have inflamed the refugee-camp centers. In this chaotic situation, two Arab leaderships that mistrust each other -Iraq and Saudi Arabia-found common cause in trying to save the artificial kingdom of Jordan from falling to one of two enemies: either the Israelis outside or the Communists within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JORDAN: A King's Ordeal | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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