Word: capitulationism
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Meeting in Melun, 30 miles southeast of Paris, the F.L.N.'s Ahmed Boumendjel spent five days in talks with Roger Moris, De Gaulle's Secretary of State for Algeria. The exchanges were so frosty that the Algerians complained of "a Panmunjom atmosphere." Boumendjel asked whether F.L.N. "Premier" Ferhat...
The last straw was Kirby's capitulation to the demands of a minority stockholder, Randolph Phillips, who had charged Young, Kirby and the oil-rich Texas Murchisons with mismanagement of Alleghany assets. Not only did the Kirby-engineered settlement force Mrs. Young to pay $1,050,000 to the...
Wooed by all nations, because of the power it holds with the working model of a bomb that can blow up all Europe, Grand Fenwick finally negotiates the capitulation of the U.S. Fenwickian wine gets a fair break in U.S. markets; Grand Fenwick keeps the bomb in cooperation with other...
The influences of religion on international issues seem clearer. Whereas 67 per cent of all the questionnaires favored total war over surrender to the Soviet Union, 87 per cent of the Catholics were for bombs rather than capitulation. This is linked to the fact that almost half the Catholics (of...
As the determined Ann Whitefield, who forces Jack Tanner to his knees and her arms, Rosemary Harris makes a delicious seductress, ensnaring her prey with a wonderfully cool, crafty grace. In his stage directions Shaw calls Ann "one of the vital geniuses," and Tanner says, referring to her, "Vitality in...