Word: capitulationism
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The play opens and closes in 1858. Its title is something of a misnomer since Wagner's exile dates from 1849, when he fled Dresden after getting mixed up in revolutionary politics. In 1858 the musician and his wife Minna (Evelyn Varden) are under the patronage of Otto Wesendonck...
The most crucial job in the Empire was briskly shouldered last week by the new First Lord of the British Admiralty, Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare. Few months ago he was Foreign Secretary, and in those now distant times it was still possible for Great Britain to have made a...
Most technical was the point at issue. His Majesty's Government objected that a German navy 35% as strong as Britain's in total tonnage might be built with a disproportionate allotment of German tonnage to submarines or some other special craft, thus enabling Germany to equal or...
So far as possible the Chinese people have been kept in ignorance of their Government's capitulation. Over 100 newspapers in North China have been suppressed. Chinese and Japanese censorship remained ironclad. Japanese bombing planes thundered menacingly over Peiping. In Tientsin with feverish activity Japanese architects and landscape gardeners...
"The truth is I am more of a farmer than a soldier. I take little or no interest in military affairs. I never went into the army without regret and I never retired without pleasure." Thus, to a shocked German Crown Prince, spoke the great General Grant, full fed on...