Word: capitulationism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Limitless Fury." A soldier's son, De Gaulle grew up in Paris with an all-consuming love of country. "France," he decided in early youth, "cannot be France without greatness." As an army colonel in the 1930s, he was keenly aware of his country's disavowal of that...
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The 1942 fall of Singapore, called by Winston Churchill "the worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history."
Though they balked until a plane was actually warming up to cart them off into exile, King Saud's five rebellious sons finally kissed Feisal's hand in submission last week. Their capitulation may ease family pressure to banish Saud himself. Meanwhile Feisal, whose reforms in the past...
A lockless, sea-level canal, blasted by buried atomic devices, may be feasible. It certainly is desirable for commercial and military reasons. Neither the larger merchant and passenger ships, nor the U.S. Navy's nuclear carriers will fit through the Panama Canal. Washington could offer to relinquish its sovereignty over...
Prison to Prison. Born in Mytho, 35 miles southwest of Saigon, Minh graduated from a lycée run by the French, in 1940 enlisted in the French colonial army and was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant. He spent most of World War II serving under a Vichy colonial administration that...