Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partly it was the sheer weight of fact: farm prosperity, signs that the recession is easing, realization that the Government faces a deficit of $10 billion or more in the fiscal year ahead, overseas rumblings showing that 1958 is no year to retreat toward isolationism by building higher tariff fences and slashing foreign aid. After pondering the facts, plus the sentiments of the voters back home, many a congressional man in motion switched direction to follow his followers...
Soprano Callas' exit looked to some operagoers like a retreat in her six-year-old war against Soprano Renata Tebaldi. Callas won the first battle in 1955, when her rival disappeared from La Scala; Tebaldi has not sung there since. But while Tebaldi began a brilliant new career at Manhattan's Met, her fans made things hot for Callas in Milan. When hissing Tebaldi rooters pelted Callas with radishes, Manager Antonio Ghiringhelli put up to 150 cops into La Scala, soothed Callas with public kisses and bales of flowers...
Moderation, in fact, was the keynote of De Gaulle's game. Ostensibly, France's World War II hero spent most of the week in solitary retreat at his home in the village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, waiting for France to send for him. But from "authoritative sources" and "persons who have talked to the general within the last 48 hours" came a rash of inspired stories on his political intentions. Their burden: De Gaulle had in mind "only a short term of office," and if he got it, would confine himself to settling the Algerian...
Giving a Push. Predictably, this display of weakness in Paris only served to spur Algiers to new assaults. Late in the week, abandoning all attempts to keep open a line of diplomatic retreat, insurgent leaders took a public pledge not to submit to Paris until De Gaulle governed France. The rebels seemed to have all the initiative and unity. Without risking an invasion of the French mainland, they could set off troubles, as in Corsica. And in Tunisia, violent fighting broke out between Tunisian army units and the garrison at Remada, one of the ten bases France still holds...
...Tactic of Silence. As the supreme crisis of the Fourth Republic edged into its second week, almost everybody involved in the maneuvering seemed to be playing a dangerous forcing role with a skillful caution that left room for retreat. Premier Pflimlin. gaining time with each day in office, was unflinching but not unyielding; he might have denounced the Algiers military junta for sedition, but he chose instead to remind it of its duty. The junta itself preserved a careful ambiguity about the source of its authority. Unpredictable Zealot Jacques Soustelle. greeted by fervent admirers in Algiers, nonetheless cried ou; "Long...