Defeatist: (French – Défaitiste). The term applied in the war to people in Allied countries who desired defeat and worked to that end. Originally, the term was given to the earlier Bolsheviks in Russia by the Kerensky party. The term was taken up in France, and applied to certain writers in the Paris press and to the notorious traitor, Bolo, and his associates. Then it passed to England.[1]
References / notes
- ↑ Edward Fraser and John Gibbons (1925). Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases. Routledge, London p.74.
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