Word: capitulationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shams & Realities. Mikoyan's aloofness was understandable; his ears must still have been burning from the violent 7,000-word blast that China had directed at Russia, attacking last month's Moscow meeting of 19 pro-Soviet Communist parties. Lavishly embroidered with typical pseudo-philosophic chinoiserie, the Peking...
Died. General Maxime Weygand, 98, diminutive cavalry officer who tasted France's sweetest victory as Marshal Foch's chief of staff reading the surrender terms to German generals at Compiegne in 1918, then acceded to his nation's most bitter defeat in June 1940, when as the...
Unnerved, the administration passed the hot potato to the faculty. Next day the Academic Senate, composed of all professors and deans, proposed a capitulation to F.S.M. on the double-jeopardy issue, and a policy that "the content of on-campus speech or advocacy should not be restricted by the university...
Shattered Career. As a reward, Kennedy was named ambassador to England in 1938, where he found a kindred spirit in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, another businessman-turned-politician, and he eagerly seconded Chamberlain's appeasement policies. Believing that all the world's ills could be solved by clever...
Said De Gaulle: "It is our duty to look directly at the origin of the unhappiness that turned the capital over to the suffering and outrage of the occupation. For invasion, capitulation, oppression, were nothing more than the outcome of political, military and moral collapse, and they in turn were...