Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asserts that he has for some weeks been fulfilling all the duties of the Presidency. The fact is that he has not. If he had, there would not have been the fiasco about the tanks for Saudi Arabia, nor the Dulles whopper about the Russian defeat and retreat all over the world, nor the deep silence about the mounting race crisis in the South, nor the complete absence of an American policy on Israel and the Middle East. If this is a test of working at full capacity, then God help America and its people in the crisis...
Pineau spoke with the acerbity of a Frenchman sick and tired of hearing only criticism from his allies. His speech made no stir in France, a nation oppressed by long years of retreat and humiliation, and all too ready to believe that the fault must be somewhere else...
...coup by personal diplomacy, British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd flew to Cyprus last week to try to win a settlement from the island's Ethnarch, Archbishop Makarios. The bearded archbishop was plainly in no mood for compromise. "The British," he said, "must exclude any possibility of further retreat by us no matter how tough their stand may appear...
...James Joyce [Feb. 13] has been long overdue. Joyce was an anti-intellectual. His crime was to unseat reason from its throne. The role of the intellect is to reduce the chaos of the subconscious, and of the stream of consciousness, to order. To surrender that function and retreat to chaos is treason against man himself and the God who endowed him with intellect and will...
...against the Eisenhower Administration, Jenner cried that patriotism and courage and the Constitution are going "out of style" in Washington. He called the conduct of U.S. foreign policy "nauseating," and roared that the State Department under John Foster Dulles "talks anti-Communism but silently, secretly carries on a planned retreat before the Communist advance." His question: "Could our fifth column have planned it that...