Word: fatalism
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THIS capital teems with testaments to the tragic miscalculations and near-fatal results of U.S. policy toward the Chinese Nationalists and Formosa. The visible, jarring fact is that the U.S. has created a situation which now makes it well-nigh impossible to sustain any effective position whatever on and toward Formosa. If the miscalculations of the State Department are retrieved, it will be only because Formosa's Nationalists, in their extremity, are able and willing to make retrieval possible...
...China we have made the fatal mistake every soldier dreads: underestimating the enemy. If we had dreamed that the Communists could take China, we would have swallowed Chiang Kaishek, horns, cloven hooves and all-if that was the way we felt about him. Personally I have great respect for Chiang...
...Efficient civilian defense planning could well be the difference between a serious and a fatal disaster. For example, it is estimated that with only twelve minutes' warning as against no warning, and under efficiently planned civilian defense, the casualties in a city hit by an atomic bomb could be reduced...
Late last summer 16-month-old Joan Anderson of Washington, D.C. came down with nephrosis, a sometimes fatal kidney disease which doctors don't know much about. One thing the medical men do know about the disease: if a nephrotic catches measles, the patient often improves (why measles sometimes acts as an antidote is another thing the doctors don't know...
...reaction against such social destructiveness, says Demant, the modern world is turning from capitalism toward various kinds of collectivism. In its religious implications, this reaction is as fatal as the disease it would cure...