Word: capitulationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aspen, of course, was only for the spillover Kennedys. The real nucleus of the group spent the holidays in Palm Beach, celebrating more than the simple capture of another Senate seat. The New York Couture Group, in final capitulation to the Kennedy way, last week for the second consecutive year...
I feel I must point out, however, that I do not "assert," as your reviewer claims, that England in 1941 was nearer to capitulation "than anyone now likes to admit."
To prefer peace is not capitulation. And although to my own knowledge many people did feel like this, they were not the majority; and they were not England.
Capitulation was never contemplated. To suggest that it was-and to credit me with the suggestion-is, I feel, unfair both to the living and to the dead.
His plan was reasonable enough. Hitler did want peace with England. Earlier efforts to draw Churchill into negotiations had failed. The Führer probably knew what Hess was up to, Leasor theorizes, and tacitly permitted it, carefully avoiding precise knowledge of the details to keep himself from implication if...