Word: capitulationism
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Last week the British had crept and climbed to positions all around him, making Amba Alagi uncomfortable for other reasons besides altitude. He decided that he had detained the British long enough, asked for peace terms. The British gladly delivered. Neither Cairo nor London divulged the terms in detail, but...
Winston Churchill ended with high fervor: "Little did Hitler know when in June 1940 he received the total capitulation of France and expected to be master of Europe in a few weeks and of the world in a few years, that ten months later, in May 1941, he would be...
Here came one of the strangest curiosities of World War II. On Monday, April 21, Greek General Tsolakoglou capitulated to the Germans. But either the Germans did not tell the Italians, or Mussolini, anxious to win his own capitulation, did not tell his people. So Mussolini, who had vowed "to...
World War II, Dunkirk, the capitulation of the Belgians-all, according to More About Nostradamus, were foretold. But the quatrain which heartened last week's cinemagoers most was the final one: "At last the two leaders shall be disjointed by the hunt, by a humane rule of Anglican breed...
Little had happened, up to the night of March 26, to dissipate this fear. It had grown with each day's events. That very day Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka had arrived in Berlin, to be greeted by the envoys of all the little countries which had succumbed to...