Word: capitulationism
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Professor Nielson characterized as disastrous for the spiritual life of Europe the fact that at the outbreak of the war the leaders of thought abdicated their thrones, surrendered their intellectual independence and led the way for a general capitulation before the forces of national prejudice and hatred.
One finds merely a repetition of the Franco-Prussian war with the circumstances and methods of battle slightly changed. Paris suffers a second capitulation.