Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program as hopeful and liberal was sweepingly effective until the actual results of its control of the nation began to be so plainly visible. Now, however, the record shows that, whatever may be said of its ventures in social fields, in the economic field, it has been defeatist in its philosophy and reactionary in its policies...
...only concrete platform to which the A. I. L. has committed itself is the four-point statement of aims drawn up in October. At that time the League went on record as being opposed to the defeatist attitude that "America will get in this war sooner or later anyway." In addition it voted against all profiteering, extension of credits to belligerents, and dangerous propaganda and to concentrate the League's efforts on safeguarding civil liberties and strengthening democracy in America...
Besides, there is no use taking a defeatist attitude like that of the Republicans when we can make great progress with South American countries towards free trade. Now is our chance to tear down tariff walls and make the Western Hemisphere strong, peaceful, and economically prosperous...
...presidential candidate, but you are just a Childe Harolde to me. Just how old does one get in thirty-eight years, anyway? At the risk of being an un-American, defeatist influence, I don't want faith restored to me. You just stay over in the Elysian fields where you belong, and let me wallow my poor benighted way through Hell. Yours very cordially, Pro Bono Publico...