Word: capitulationism
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To Diem and his fellow leaders across anti-Communist Asia-from Korea to the Philippines-a U.S. capitulation to Peking, either by dramatic act or slow erosion, would be a catastrophe. To the U.S.'s Asian flank in the cold war, it would be a mortal blow.
That evening, proclaiming angrily that "appeasement leads only to disaster," eight right-wing Tory M.P.s bolted the Conservative Party. Next day sibilant, bespectacled Lord Salisbury, who until he resigned from the government over Cyprus (TIME, April 8) was one of Macmillan's closest associates, bitingly called for a House...
Britain's capitulation left France and Israel still defiant of Egypt, but in different ways-Israel eager to use the canal immediately, France angrily hoping to continue a Boycott for better terms. ''Little by little all our friends are walking out on us in felt slippers . . . even...
Then Eden made a blunder. He fol lowed right on by reading his reply to Bulganin's note. Inescapably, the world was left with the impression that only Bulganin's threat had scared Eden into capitulation-an impression that the Russians successfully exploited among the Arabs of the...
At almost that same time, Harold Stassen was throwing in the towel on his dump-Nixon fight. Throughout the week, the haggardly smiling Stassen had endured small indignities: he was booed in the Fairmont Hotel; delegates flaunted insulting buttons saying. "stASSen" and "Stassen Stop Harassin'." Stassen could have taken...