Word: capitulationism
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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...
"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...