Word: defeatists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the other side came no such defeatist talk. The Communist radio broad cast a pledge from Ho Chi Minh that "without fail we will struggle shoulder to shoulder" with the people of South Viet Nam to "liberate them...
...must express my surprise at being branded, by implication, a defeatist [ in "Waiting for Dienbienphu," TIME, March 29]. I am no more a defeatist when I wish a cease-fire in Indo-China than President Eisenhower was when he decided in favor of a cease-fire in Korea...
Sure, you pay 78% of the bill . . . But . . . until American soldiers join the fight in Indo-China, you have absolutely no right to say that French policy there is halfheartedly supported by a defeatist France. The IndoChina war is just as unpopular with the French people as the Korean war was with the Americans-with perhaps two slight differences: America fought for three years in Korea, France has been fighting for seven in Indo-China; America came to terms with the Communists at Panmunjom; "the sick man of Europe" is still fighting...
...Ministry of the Associated States in Paris. The fact indeed was that headlines-to the effect that Indo-China had been cut in two-had given a false impression. Yet the headlines marked a victory of another sort for the Communists: in France, the chorus of defeatist voices rose to a shout...
...humanities. "Here at Princeton," says Dodds, "the flight from the humanities has not occurred as it has elsewhere, Modern society has obviously been placing a premium on the scientific and technical aspects of learning and many universities have succumbed to this attitude. Here, the Humanists have never been defeatist. For this reason we feel a special obligation to them...