Word: capitulationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the day 14 months ago when they signed a pastoral letter calling for "freedom of conscience, press and assembly," Dictator Rafael Trujillo has spared no effort to beat the Roman Catholic bishops of the Dominican Republic into submissive silence. Two months ago, dismayed by personal threats and public incitement...
When Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe tried out in Wilmington, Del., Star Claudette Colbert realized that the stage adaptation of Oriana Atkinson's Over at Uncle Joe's desperately needed doctoring. "Yet they were just applying poultices where a leg should have been amputated," Claudette recalled. "I asked...
Pridefully, Trujillo's radio station La Voz Dominicana reported the letter of capitulation addressed to "the benefactor of the fatherland" by the six bishops: "We are coming to Your Excellency with the wish to continue cooperating. There has been a deterioration in relations that we are the first to...
Some U.S. citizens, especially colonial-minded oldtime civilian employees of the Panama Canal Co., were as dissatisfied as the Panamanian demonstrators. "The sight of a representative of the U.S. handing our capitulation notice to another country made me want to puke," said one. Yet a quiet movement toward international friendship...
Meeting in Melun, 30 miles southeast of Paris, the F.L.N.'s Ahmed Boumendjel spent five days in talks with Roger Moris, De Gaulle's Secretary of State for Algeria. The exchanges were so frosty that the Algerians complained of "a Panmunjom atmosphere." Boumendjel asked whether F.L.N. "Premier" Ferhat...