Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Littlemen's Fumble Fatal...
...call to enter this war to save our democracy from destruction, and how certainly from destruction, and how certainly this destruction will come if we do enter the war. President MacCracken of Vassar College, has again and made clear the imperialistic character of the European war, and how fatal to every higher interests of the land will be our entrance into it. Other educational leaders, some at Harvard, have spoken in this same way. But the overwhelming majority of professors at Harvard and elsewhere, have gone all but crazy. Those whom we should trust the most as servants of truth...
...march their officers dinned into them, "the enemy is stronger." The mottoes of "the Greatest Army in Europe" became planquez-vous (hide) and sauve qui peut. In a fatal confusion of discipline with punishment, the officers tried to toughen them while they marched: 35, 40, 45 kilometers a night. The older men fell out. The stronger, to ease their regulation load of 70 pounds, tossed their equipment in the ditches. Trucks were nowhere to be seen...
...Army to try to slug toe-to-toe with the Wehrmacht, said they, would be fatal. The Red Army would be annihilated within three months. Last week the Red Army was still only partly annihilated, and the rest of it was still slugging. Even Berlin reported its resistance "unbelievable," spoke with hurt surprise of new Russian opposition. On three colossal fronts the Red Army was not only taking punishment but giving...
Between two devastating defeats, Norway and France, Britons quietly won the one victory without which they could not hope to survive in World War II-they liquidated the class war in England for the duration. Entirely within the framework of their democracy, Britons freed themselves of those fatal tensions and cleavages that plague other democracies, paralyzed France. The miracle of Britain's outnumbered defense was made possible by the miracle of British class collaboration...