Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unreal & Defeatist. Labor leaders had cautioned Evatt against using the Petrov spy case as an issue in the election, had urged him instead to campaign along traditional Labor Party lines: more Welfare State benefits, reduction of military expenditure, withdrawal of troops from Malaya, admission of Red China to the U.N. But the Liberals pinned the Communist label to this policy as well...
...will find it significant," said Menzies, that Evatt "should now propound a defense policy which is unreal and defeatist and which will be received with enthusiasm only by the Communists and those who support them." In Melbourne, Roman Catholic Archbishop Daniel Mannix, a Catholic Action leader, added: "If the foreign policy of certain leaders is any indication, the Communist rot has begun to set in here...
...June 17, 1940 a British general leaned out of a taxiing plane on a Bordeaux airfield and hauled aboard a tense, tall Frenchman who was escaping from his defeatist colleagues. Years later, Winston Churchill was to write that the Frenchman, General Charles de Gaulle, "carried with him, in this small aeroplane, the honour of France." In all the world there is probably no one more certain of this than De Gaulle himself. In his story of World War II, The Call to Honour, he plainly sees himself as more savior than soldier and ends on a mystical note: "Poring over...
...analysis of the nation's economic and political stagnation called "Where Is France Heading?" Its article, "Why Do Five Million Frenchmen Vote Communist?" (TIME, June 30, 1952), reprinted throughout the free world, gave millions of readers a clear, sharp look at France's delusive, defeatist political climate. Although French business, professional and educational leaders make up two-thirds of its subscribers, the magazine frequently needles French employers for their notoriously low wage scales and bad labor relations. It has not spared the rod in criticizing the nation's backward public school system. Last week Réalti...
...Pinky Higgins, he never felt the need for loudmouthed bluster. Slats was the man who was managing the St. Louis Browns in 1953, when they became the Baltimore Orioles, and he said out loud that he had a lousy ball club. He was fired for his honesty. "Defeatist," mumbled the Orioles' General Manager Arthur Ehlers, choosing a strange word to describe the skinny scrapper who had made himself "Mr. Shortstop" on the red-hot St. Louis Cardinals...