14.What we can say with more certainty though is that Edward was potentially pro-Nazi and still believed in the 1930s politics of appeasement, and was a defeatist, to say the least.
15.There's a couple of very good lines that Maggie has to Edith when she's feeling a bit blue and she's moaning and moping a bit, and Violet says, " Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class" .
16.The phrase attributed to Halifax has contributed to his reputation of being a defeatist, though Halifax's biographer Andrew Roberts suggests that Butler was sharing his own views on the matter while claiming to speak with the Foreign Secretary's authority.