Word: retreatism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barricades. He was never at the barricades but he-and Moscow's embattled citizenry-did the necessary job. As a reward, Bulganin got a general's rank in the Red army and rapid advancement to the post of political commissar. While Khrushchev, in the days of German retreat from Russia, was liquidating the rebellious peasants who had sided with the Germans in the Ukraine, Bulganin was doing the same job in Belorussia...
...other embattled Britons, the winter of 1940 may have been their finest hour-but not for Commando Officers and Gentlemen Evelyn Waugh writes about in his second novel about World War II. With his elite brigades buried in Eastern Mediterranean retreat, the boss commandoman in London could count for instant offensive action exactly six men and a pariah captain left at home in a shipping snafu. Desperate for any justifying achievement, the general ordered out these seven, with his press officer, on a radar-smashing raid by submarine on a Channel islet...
...merely the initial bargaining position from which the Soviets might conceivably be willing to retreat at the summit meeting in Geneva and the subsequent foreign ministers' meetings...
...nations nations? The world is not yet ready, and may never be, for a world government. It does need multilateral diplomacy. The mere existence of the U.N. sometimes makes a settlement possible because nations that will not yield an inch before their next-door neighbor will beat a retreat more gracefully in response to an appeal from the U.N. It gives the Communists a soapbox, but it also provides small nations with a useful forum for world debate; at its best, it gives everyone a court of appeal before the bar of world opinion...
...loses a cushy occupation job in Paris and his officer's rank when he takes up with an old girl friend who is in the resistance. Shipped to the Russian front, he does nothing more dangerous than guard and kitchen duty, manages to escape handily when the great retreat gets under way. He becomes a chauffeur at headquarters, and he always manages to keep just out of reach of the Russians. At the end he joins a group that deliberately deserts and chooses the British as the most desirable captors...