Word: capitulationism
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Is Everybody Happy? The Central Government promised Moise "a general and complete amnesty" for himself and his followers. With that, Tshombe returned to Elisabethville to work out the procedures of his capitulation with U.N. officials. He found that some of the details had already been taken care of. The blue...
Aspen, of course, was only for the spillover Kennedys. The real nucleus of the group spent the holidays in Palm Beach, celebrating more than the simple capture of another Senate seat. The New York Couture Group, in final capitulation to the Kennedy way, last week for the second consecutive year...
I feel I must point out, however, that I do not "assert," as your reviewer claims, that England in 1941 was nearer to capitulation "than anyone now likes to admit."
To prefer peace is not capitulation. And although to my own knowledge many people did feel like this, they were not the majority; and they were not England.
Capitulation was never contemplated. To suggest that it was-and to credit me with the suggestion-is, I feel, unfair both to the living and to the dead.