Word: defeatists
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...presidential candidate, but you are just a Childe Harolde to me. Just how old does one get in thirty-eight years, anyway? At the risk of being an un-American, defeatist influence, I don't want faith restored to me. You just stay over in the Elysian fields where you belong, and let me wallow my poor benighted way through Hell. Yours very cordially, Pro Bono Publico...
...ending the period of immunity from arrest of 72 former Communist deputies, 53 of whom had formed a Workers' and Peasants' Party. Unfortunately, these deputies had also signed and sent a peace letter to Chamber of Deputies President Edouard Herriot which the French Government suspected of being "defeatist propaganda...
...French Navy mutiny in the Black Sea and fought with the Spanish Loyalists, was thought to have disappeared to Russia. Deputy Jacques Duclos, an experienced fugitive from justice, could not be found. Also under indictment was onetime Air Minister Marcel Déat, dissident Socialist and prominent French defeatist who last summer wrote a tract called Die for Danzig? This time he was accused of having signed one called Immediate Peace...
...game, Coach Dick Harlow effectively summed up the situation by saying, "It was a question of a good, experienced team playing one with possibilities." Perhaps remembering the Cornell game a year ago and the subsequent success of a slow starting eleven, Dick and his staff refused to adopt a defeatist attitude...
...Loyalist Government of Premier Dr. Juan Negrin was replaced early this week by a defeatist junta of six military and political leaders headed by General Segismundo Casado, recently appointed military commander of the Madrid Zone. Dr. Negrin was overthrown and given his flying papers to France in what had all the earmarks of a bloodless but forceful Army coup d'etat. It spelled the final dissolution of Loyalist Spain and brought peace very near to the war-weary country...