Word: defeatists
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...Mirror, founded by the late Lord Northcliffe and the world's first great successful tabloid, is no small game. It has over 2,000,000 circulation and is the most popular paper with British servicemen. It is neither pacifist nor defeatist, but it has unmercifully ribbed the blunders of the British war effort. Its Columnist Cassandra,* a bespectacled, vitriolic Irish hefty named William Connor, has furnished most of the ammunition...
Senator Nye did not go directly to Washington. That night he spoke at Pittsburgh's First Baptist Church. His manner and tone were bitter and defeatist: ". . . just what Britain had planned for us"; "we have been maneuvered into this by the President...
...Schaumburg to make good his threat, in Vichy Marshal Petain's Minister of the Interior Pierre Pucheu lashed out furiously at the underground Communist Party in both zones of France. Warned he: "[We] will not permit a political group that was most bellicose before the war, but defeatist throughout the war, now to wrap itself in the Tricolor and provoke incidents between the people and occupation troops on the pretext of patriotism...
...France a handful of defeatist politicians surrendered to Germany in the belief that Britain was doomed. They assured Frenchmen everywhere that this was the case, and most Frenchmen believed them. General de Gaulle went to England to rally the French Empire to the cause of fighting on. A good many oldsters in charge of colonial administration, convinced that all was lost, refused to respond. Many younger leaders wanted to fight, but doubted Britain's and De Gaulle's will or ability to fight on. By the time they decided on resistance many had been replaced by Vichy...
...catch phrase for French defeatists on the eve of World War II was "Die For Danzig?," the title of an article by right-wing Socialist Marcel Dêat. Last week Defeatist Dêat was ready to die for Danzig, Berlin and all way stations. With other leaders of France's Fascist-minded Rassemblement National Populaire he enlisted to fight with the Nazis in Russia...