Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schaumburg to make good his threat, in Vichy Marshal Petain's Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu lashed out furiously at the underground Communist Party in both zones of France. Warned he: "[We] will not permit a political group that was most bellicose before the war, but defeatist throughout the war, now to wrap itself in the Tricolor and provoke incidents between the people and occupation troops on the pretext of patriotism...
...France a handful of defeatist politicians surrendered to Germany in the belief that Britain was doomed. They assured Frenchmen everywhere that this was the case, and most Frenchmen believed them. General de Gaulle went to England to rally the French Empire to the cause of fighting on. A good many oldsters in charge of colonial administration, convinced that all was lost, refused to respond. Many younger leaders wanted to fight, but doubted Britain's and De Gaulle's will or ability to fight on. By the time they decided on resistance many had been replaced by Vichy...
...catch phrase for French defeatists on the eve of World War II was "Die For Danzig?," the title of an article by right-wing Socialist Marcel Dêat. Last week Defeatist Dêat was ready to die for Danzig, Berlin and all way stations. With other leaders of France's Fascist-minded Rassemblement National Populaire he enlisted to fight with the Nazis in Russia...
...Give us a logical, coherent, consistent and courageous course to follow-be it 'interventionist' or be it 'isolationist' and we'll follow you through hell and high water, but the present vacillating and unreasoning policies and practices engender in us nothing but the 'defeatist' and 'apathetic' attitudes which your followers in Washington publicly deplore. We'll follow-will you lead?" ROBERT LEIGHTON...
...malady when last week he delivered a lecture in Manhattan on "The Nature and Treatment of Hypertension." Dr. Page, a top-notch high pressure man from Indianapolis, showed that great strides have been taken in his specialty in the short space of seven years. Doctors used to take a defeatist view of hypertension, ascribed it to the "mere ravages of physiologic aging." Treatment consisted mostly in keeping patients relaxed and calm by persuasion and drugs. Now there is something better...