Word: defeatists
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...What had prompted this Utterance was the growing defeatist attitude of the regular Republican cohorts in the Senate. There had been talk of outright surrender to the coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans, of adjourning the Senate Nov. 15 and leaving the Tariff Bill supine upon a deserted field. Such futility had pervaded the Republican camp that Brigadier Hiram Johnson of California remarked to his comrades-in-arms...
...denounced by Frenchmen as a traitor; Two, when scandals touching his private life were exposed by Editor Calmette of Le Figaro who was therefore shot dead by Mme. Caillaux; Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued for a defeatist peace with Germany; and finally Four, when as Finance Minister, after an astounding comeback from prison to Power, he dismally failed to negotiate a satisfactory Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME...
...Atlantic came into play. Twelve steamships altered or considered altering their courses for rescue purposes. In the meantime Courtney pondered the almost indefatigable jinx which has attended his flying career (TIME, July 18, 27). At length radio-operator Gilmour said he saw a ship. "Liar," remarked Courtney, near-defeatist...
...134Calmette, editor of Le Figaro, was shot by Mme. Caillaux. Clemenceau brought about Caillaux's trial and conviction as a Defeatist. Ignace represented the Ministry of Justice in drawing up the prosecution for the trial...
...Intransigeant, Paris evening journal: "There is much to be done. . . For instance, why does the Government tolerate the action of the defeatist Frenchmen, having no purchases to make abroad, speculating on the dollar against the franc? Why tolerate that in France, notably Alsace-Lorraine, important contracts are signed between French industrials payable in dollars, as if the franc had ceased to be the only currency having official circulation in France? Whatever way we turn, we find the need for a strong Premier to steer the country through its difficult task. M. Poincaré as Minister of Foreign Affairs has been admirably...