Word: capitulationism
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"In countries accustomed to a strong, confident government there cannot be the faintest comprehension of this shameful capitulation by the highest German officials before a horde of half-grown brats."
Dr. Braun remained inflexible. Suddenly the acting Stahlhelm leaders, who had previously refused to treat with Socialist Braun, called upon him. They promised that if allowed to parade before Old Paul they would not thereafter stage military maneuvres in the Rhineland. This promise was really a Hindenburg-Stahlhelm capitulation. Dr...
"What more sacrifices are there for me to make to save the companies from the destruction and dismemberment of receivership into which their powerful enemies are bent upon plunging them?" Cineman William Fox asked this question last week-another appeal to his stockholders, perhaps the last before they gather on...
Somewhat a grudging loser was Sir Hugo, however, whose head, though bloodied, remained unbowed. His capitulation, obviously forced, hinted at unspecified outside interests that had compelled the abandonment of a highly reasonable position. "Certain proposals, for which I have made myself responsible, . . . have become the subject of an acute controversy...
With the present volume, a sequel, the author shows himself less novelist than professor intent upon the interesting phenomenon of the second generation. He contrasts Beret, reluctant Norwegian immigrant of the earlier volume, with Beret's son Peder, who is impatient with the language, religion and customs of his...