Word: kowtowish
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...Parliament, meanwhile, Conservative Major Charles Mott-Radclyffe has heatedly berated the government's kowtowish attitude-"This extremely humiliating position of offering unilateral recognition . . . without in turn receiving recognition ourselves." Conservative Air Commodore Arthur V. Harvey fumed over the disposal of former Nationalist planes in Hong Kong and shipments of British aircraft engines and frames to Red China: "It seems extraordinary that when we are accepting aid from our friends in the U.S. we should be handing over equipment in this way." Major Tufton Beamish quoted the 1920 prophecy of Stalin: "England's back will be broken...
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