Such people became known as traditors ( " surrenderers " ).
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One was Lt . Gen . Arthur Percival, ignominious surrenderer of Singapore.
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A few days later he told the House : Surrenderers were the scaffolds, And regulators were the builders : will you leave them Out ?"
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Among the harshest critics was Mayor Ehud Olmert, of Jerusalem, a senior Likud figure, who said : " This is a government of surrenderers, a government lacking self-respect and principles, a bunch of cowards ."