Word: capitulationism
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1) Eisenhower placed isolationists in his inner circle and made peace with the Taft wing--"this conciliation has all the earmarks of capitulation to the independent voter."
The unofficial censoring of "Streetcar" is significant for one reason only. It indicates that the censorship body of the Catholic Church has, in fact, achieved a degree of power prejudicial to the interests of the non-Catholic majority. The Legion of Decency was able to postpone the release date of...
The plot is quite simple. An old man, once a leader of the Russian revolution, is arrested during the Communist purge trials of 1937, and his prosecutor uses terrifying intimidation to get a confession from him. Rubashov was one of the hundreds of old Bolsheviks whose deviation from the Stalinist...
When freedom is lost gradually-through petty actions, in little dribbles-the result is just as disastrous to the health of society as when freedom is lost in one sudden capitulation.
Bao Dai was hunting tigers near his summer villa at Dalat when the Japanese, early in 1945, made their 1940 control of the colony official and complete. They surprised his party, took him prisoner, installed him as a puppet emperor-until their own capitulation to the Allies a few months...