Word: recant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...franc hit a new low record for the year, on Aug. 2, in consequence of the British Ruhr note. The franc touched 5.71, which is within one point of the low record for all time. Boulevardiers darkly hinted at "intenational bankers" bringing pressure on France to force her to recant her foreign policy...
...Spoon-fed minds can never be anything but a sop to the community. And, incidentally, the propagandists are defeating their own ends; for as soon as a counter-propagandist appears who can out-shout them, their converts, trained to be "followers". Carlylian "valets", are as liable as not to recant, and desert to the enemy...