Word: capitulationism
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Harvard's craven, if piecemeal, capitulation to latter-day feminism, culminating in the recent decision to grant Radcliffe girls Harvard degrees, should hardly be taken as an example by intellectually more mature institutions of higher learning.
These concessions, naturally, were not made out of the goodness of anyone's heart. The French may have been defeated, but the threat of American intervention in the event of complete French capitulation was enough to prompt the Soviet Union, newly embarked on a somewhat peaceful line in foreign policy...
For more than a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Ambassador Joseph Grew had warned from Tokyo that the Japanese might make "an all-out, do-or-die attempt . . . with dangerous and dramatic suddenness." When it came, the joint U.S. Army-Navy Hawaiian defense plan had been circulated as...
The dream of a United States of Europe has captivated statesmen from Charlemagne to Churchill. But for Britain, still dreaming of the days when it was the greatest power on earth, togetherness with the Continent has always seemed a kind of national capitulation, and it has remained proudly aloof across...
Somebody else who had reason to worry was Nikita Khrushchev, who has recurrent nightmares over the prospect of a powerful, prosperous, united Europe as a next-door neighbor. "Never before in Britain's history has there been such a case of economic and political capitulation," raged Radio Moscow, added...