Word: capitulationism
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The New Statesman & Nation took up the same cudgel, laid it on with a different intent. It hoped by the removal of Lord Halifax to facilitate democratic "counterrevolution" against Hitlerism throughout the Continent (TIME, July 22). "Here is a moment of supreme psychological importance. . . . The peoples of Europe know far...
Only in the last five minutes did he turn to Britain. But there was still no concrete program for peace, no specific offer, no suggestion of a possible procedure. Almost as an afterthought he signified his willingness to accept Great Britain's capitulation, virtuously hoped to avoid the impending...
Traditional British method of disposing of extra sons is to shunt them into the Army or Church, or ship them off to the colonies. Since December 1936, the most superfluous British extra son has been the Duke of Windsor, whose position as liaison officer between the British and French Armies...
For 22 years Adolf Hitler was a grim, lonely figure, brooding bitterly over the humiliation imposed on him and Germany by the Treaty of Versailles. Like a neurotic who has exposed the source of his own neurosis to himself and dominated it, fortnight ago, when the Germans conquered France and...
Except for the death in the air of the war's most celebrated casualty to date, the Southern Theatre provided little action other than minor border and naval raids. But of confusion, countermand, cross-purposes and capitulation there was dramatic news aplenty.