Word: capitulationism
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By luck and his last minute capitulation he had worked his way out of the sump-hole of unpopularity in which he had been sloshing triumphantly for so long. The railroad strike had screened his undignified scramble for the bank. But if he remembered jumping into it in the first...
When U.S. tropps advanced in northern Luzon, the Japanese bundled him off to Tokyo in an airplane, allowed him to set up a "government in exile." As the months passed, many a Filipino guessed that a U.S. bomb had ended his career. But last week steaming, war-shattered Manila heard...
Despite some few preparations, peace had caught the U.S. unprepared. On the morning after Japanese capitulation and the riotous celebrations that followed, many a citizen realized how inadequate his imagination had been in picturing the days to come. Peace was here, and for the time being little else mattered. Eventually...
But no one in the streets had yet heard the news of the enemy's final capitulation.
Next day the vigil was resumed. But the guessing game had lost its fascination, everybody knew that the Japs had been beaten. The precise minute of capitulation no longer made much difference. Yet when the radio and press flashed the word that the Japs had accepted U.S. terms there were...