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...system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage. . . . The newspapers of today are full of high-wire walkers like the Runyon of Short Takes . . . he is a hired Hessian of the typewriter ... a disguised defeatist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Runyon with the Half-Boob Air | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

TIME and the world generally seem to have tacitly accepted the abbreviation UNO . . . definitely negative and defeatist. In other words-United...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...communiqués were issued as the two leaders began their talks. But with the signing of the Sino-Russian pact (TIME, Aug. 27) a change came over the Communist propaganda line. The Generalissimo was no longer a "fascist" defeatist but "President Chiang Kai-shek." The Generalissimo's regime was no longer the "reactionary Kuomintang clique" but the "National Government." Said a Communist spokesman: "We recognize Chiang as a national leader of the anti-Japanese war and we are prepared to recognize him as the leader of postwar rehabilitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Reunion in Chungking | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...became certain the Nazis took three steps, in an effort to insure postwar operation of the Krupp industries: 1) Government control was eliminated, so that Krupp became technically a "private industry"; 2) Nazis were expelled from Krupp personnel; and 3) the Krupps were accused of (but not prosecuted for) defeatist and anti-Nazi sentiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPLES: The Uncooked Octopus | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...Moscow, Izvestia attacked the Chungking Government as corrupt, defeatist and reaction ary. In San Francisco, Tung Pi-wu, Communist member of China's delegation to the security conference, issued a 31 -page memorandum extol ling the Chinese Communists and berating the Chungking Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Bid for Power | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

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