Word: defeatist
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Diefenbaker's complacency in regard to the bicultural question has left one third of the nation's voters, the French population, extremely dissatisfied. The Prime Minister casually sidestepped the problem by declaring that separatism is "the course of the defeatist...(there is) only one state and one nation in Canada." But the French do not feel that they possess the equality promised by Confederation. They desire increased bilingualization in the civil service and the armed forces, and a special conference on the bicultural aspects of the dual-background nation...
...President Kennedy has backed McNamara. At his news conference, Kennedy placed the cost of the Skybolt system at $2.5 billion, a figure that Skybolt contractors feel is much too high. Kennedy also seemed to express doubt that Skybolt will ever work at all. Said he in a strangely defeatist statement: ''It has been really, in a sense, the kind of engineering that's been beyond...
...tight spot in Berlin. The argument: Russia today is in a weaker position than last year, while "beleaguered" West Berlin is growing steadily stronger and more prosperous. Hence there seems less reason than ever to make offers to the Russians, and the mere talk of concessions may create a defeatist climate...
...more than a matter of accent. As the Senate's foremost critic of the Defense and State Departments' policy of reviewing public statements by military leaders, Thurmond was trying to prove that censorship has been capricious-and worse. There has been, he darkly hinted, a "secret, defeatist" policy within the State Department to prevent the military from speaking out against Communism...
...Everyone will call it the SGA for three years anyway," a representative commented. "That's a terribly defeatist attitude," snapped another...