Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freedom from want is neither a conjurer's trick nor a madman's dream. The earth has never known it, nor anything approaching it. But free men do not accept the defeatist notion that it never will...
Clemenceau Government arrested him as a defeatist follower of onetime Premier Joseph Caillaux, but later promised him safety if he would snitch on other defeatists. Many were shot, imprisoned or deported. Laval went free...
...World War II approached he worked mightily for more & more French appeasement for Germany. After the fall of France, he was the man who bullied President Lebrun into his defeatist decision not to withdraw to Africa, where a Free French Government might have seriously handicapped German designs. Laval got the Vichy Vice Premiership, was the leading exponent of collaboration with Hitler...
...Mirror, founded by the late Lord Northcliffe and the world's first great successful tabloid, is no small game. It has over 2,000,000 circulation and is the most popular paper with British servicemen. It is neither pacifist nor defeatist, but it has unmercifully ribbed the blunders of the British war effort. Its Columnist Cassandra,* a bespectacled, vitriolic Irish hefty named William Connor, has furnished most of the ammunition...
Senator Nye did not go directly to Washington. That night he spoke at Pittsburgh's First Baptist Church. His manner and tone were bitter and defeatist: ". . . just what Britain had planned for us"; "we have been maneuvered into this by the President...