Word: capitulationism
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The U.S. commander pleaded for Auloch's surrender, to avoid more senseless killing. Medical supplies for his wounded went in under flag of truce; a captured German woman, reputedly the Colonel's mistress, carried one offer of honorable surrender to him. A captured chaplain relayed an ultimatum. Auloch...
Said Molotov, in part: "Beginnings have been made in the full re-establishment of the Soviet frontier as fixed in 1940 in accordance with the agreement between Soviet Russia and Rumania [and] treacherously violated by the Rumanian Government, in alliance with Hitlerite Germany. . . . The Supreme Command of the Red Army...
To speed up the process, the Russians put Walther von Seidlitz, a German general captured at Stalingrad, before a microphone, authorized him to offer favorable terms of surrender. Said Seidlitz: ". . . you are faced with catastrophe. There is no more hope of relief. . . . [Germany] will be grateful for [your] capitulation and...
Capitulation and Risk. Roosevelt, Churchill, Inönü talked for three days. With them were Menemencioglu and Russia's smart, smooth Ambassador to Ankara Sergei Vinogradov. Afterward, an ambiguous, labored communiqué could not conceal that: 1) Turkey, risking war, had granted everything short of war; 2) the...
The influence of Boss Petrillo's ban was limited to the popular field, where the biggest producer, Decca, had already signed with the union. Capitalizing on its capitulation, Decca last week put out a bang-up album of all the songs from the Broadway smash Oklahoma!, sung by the...