Word: defeatists
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...saying this as a defeatist but as a patriot whose prime concern is the preservation of the British Empire. So long as the German Government allows me, I will be here to help...
...Everyone appearing before the committee favored increasing the production of cargo aircraft, but there was a defeatist attitude on the part of some. A defeatist attitude is not warranted by the facts...
...Freedom from want is neither a conjurer's trick nor a madman's dream. The earth has never known it, nor anything approaching it. But free men do not accept the defeatist notion that it never will...
Clemenceau Government arrested him as a defeatist follower of onetime Premier Joseph Caillaux, but later promised him safety if he would snitch on other defeatists. Many were shot, imprisoned or deported. Laval went free...
...World War II approached he worked mightily for more & more French appeasement for Germany. After the fall of France, he was the man who bullied President Lebrun into his defeatist decision not to withdraw to Africa, where a Free French Government might have seriously handicapped German designs. Laval got the Vichy Vice Premiership, was the leading exponent of collaboration with Hitler...