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Last week over the Yenan radio Mao Tse-tung angrily spurned the Generalissimo's offer. Cried Mao: The Chungking Government is "defeatist . . . obstinate in holding to a one-party dictatorship." Recent parleys, he said, had not "attained the least result." China was still cleft...
Then Presiding Judge Ronald Freisler pronounced sentence: "Mrs. Klara Z is sentenced to die by the ax for her defeatist attitude and for having insulted the Führer, the German people and the German state...
...Berlin. I was present when Mrs. Z received this news. At first she stared at me, then shouted: 'All this is the work of the devil, that mass murderer! Poor Germany, this is how things are with us.' I considered this utterance as of a decidedly defeatist nature and inimical to our Führer. I did not hesitate to inform the authorities...
...repeated and expanded on the attack he had begun in Chicago (that the Roosevelt Administration is old, tired, quarrelsome and defeatist); and opened a new salient by stating the simple fact that in 1940, after seven Roosevelt years, there were still 10,000,000 unemployed in the U.S. He named this the "Roosevelt Depression"-and for the first time the New Dealers were really on the defensive...
...asked to comment on Candidate Dewey's statement that the New Deal "is saturated with the defeatist theory that America is past its prime." He answered that this was an awful thing to think about at 5 minutes after 11 o'clock in the morning...