Word: defeatists
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...defeatist, no pessimist, he urges intellectuals to cultivate "the nerve of failure," to live with the possibility of disapproval and defeat. Neither in life nor in politics is this a formula for victory. But in both it may be a help in reducing numbness and restoring zest-which is the appropriate style of freedom...
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...