Word: capitulationism
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Next day the Administration backtracked by withdrawing the non-discrimination clause first written into the bank contracts last May. Said Commodity Credit Corporation President John H. Davis: ". . . inclusion of the clause is unnecessary . . . employment of [bank] personnel is not a real factor in performing these lending functions, and there is...
To the British Commonwealth countries, the conference would be a failure if Russia were not there. The British hope to convert the Korean parley into a de facto Big Five conference and talk magniloquently of driving a wedge between Moscow and Peking. This week U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold implied...
The Worker likes the picture's historically "accurate" description of the conflict between the landed proletariat and the "terroristic" cattle barons, but it deplores the fact that Hero Alan Ladd follows "the Hollywood strongman tradition," which, "coupled with extreme emphasis on a series of bloody fist fights, constitutes . . . capitulation...
It concluded that "the Student Council is therefore strongly critical of Provost Buck's signing of the AAP statement as significant of a capitulation of this University to external pressures..."
Russell Reading Braddon, an artillery gunner with Australia's 8th Division, spent his 21st birthday with both feet in a grave. It was early 1942, and he had been captured by the Japanese as they slithered through Malaya like lizards, chewing up the paper-thin defenses of Britain'...