Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler would be reasonable. Daladier returned to Paris with a new sense of power, and the resolve to rally his nation. Tactics which the Allies then belatedly began to fight: 1) Whispering campaigns. A relativly few hired whisperers could start - and also stop - on orders from Berlin, waves of defeatist rumors and false news which swept French society. In 1939 the French Government knew enough to take this strategy seriously, established counter-whispering squads...
...Jews but simply to get the Gentiles fighting among themselves over the Jewish question. Reactionaries in the French Army, like reactionaries everywhere, were reluctant to believe this until they read about the strategy of Jew-baiting in Nazi propa ganda manuals." 3) Synchronization of Communist and Nazi defeatist propaganda. In the early days of the war the French police arrested several people hired by the Communist Party to be "professional weepers," i.e., to drive around in open cars wearing deep mourning and making a show of grief...
...four counts just examined, the conception which the New Deal leadership has of a limited and lessening future for the enterprises of the American people is defeatist and in defiance of the facts. If this conception of the American future is permitted to go on dominating our national policy, a sense of frustration and futility will increasingly dull the venturesomeness of millions of Americans who are normally courageous and eager to take the risks of pioneering economic developments...
That Mr. Frank is a clever man, no one can deny. His program twists and turns the New Deal mercilessly, and ends up by tagging it with the twin damnations--reaction and defeatism. It is reactionary, says Mr. Frank, because it restricts free enterprise, and it is defeatist because it assumes that America has reached a limit of economic expansion. The results of the reign of this two-headed monster Mr. Frank finds in many present-day aches and pains--the debt, the unemployed, taxes, and labor trouble. He then makes the promise that if the god of free enterprise...
...Deal is not essentially defeatist. True, it now emphasizes planned reform and regulation of private enterprise, but only because further expansion is impossible until the unjust distribution of wealth inherited from the older system is rooted out. Thus the New Deal concentrates on restoring health to the present economic structure, and rightly looks for expansion only after the patient is well...