But nothing in life can be absolute or definite. We cannot, close Our eyes before what is the reverse of the spirit of our war. There are those who fight and believe, and there are those who fear and compromise. And while our brothers fight the enemy with fire and sword, we behind them have to become soldiers in the equally important "For." he argues. "we might after all have to come to some sort of arrangement with the enemy. and we should therefore be careful with certain actions and spare certain of his feelings " Beware of the dignified pose of the neutral defeatist! He has already half made up his mind to accept enslavement and most probably he deserves nothing better. He is nothing but an unconscious Fifth Columnist, who has not even brains Enough to let himself be paid for his services by the Gestapo but havers and wavers as one falling between two stools.
But there are further categories of defeatists. Politically speaking. the most common types of defeatists are those who think that there i: already enough trouble and who refuse to look any new danger in the face. It was against those that Demosthenes hurled his Philippíca. assailing those Athenians who. while agreeing that Philip of Macedonia was dangerous. insisted on fooling themselves that they were not the ones who would be victimized.
Two and one half millennia later we have known thousands and hundreds of thousands who were conussly watching the potential daner of a man called Hitler. but refused to even consider the possibility that this danger might affect themselves. We have known them and we still know them, those who spade. West could win two tricks immediately by taking the trumps out of dummy and then cashing the club king for the setting trick. If South abandoned the spade suit. and went about running his other tricks. the three remaining trumps in the defenders' hands would win separately and, added to the club ace, would defeat the contract.
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