Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessary, without positive proof, to blame hidden influences for the silence of the press in such a case. Mr. McCullough--granting that his opinion on Mexican affairs may carry weight--does not make sufficient allowance for the nature of a modern newspaper. Marvellous, in its completeness and accuracy, as the spotlight of publicity may be, it shifts, like all spotlights from one part of the stage to another, leaving now Nicaragua, now Mexico, now Ohina in total darkness after a brief if brilliant illumination. History however goes on being made in the dark. Such charges are a challenge to journalism...
...desire to postpone the next meeting of the League Preparatory Disarmament Commission, scheduled to be held in the fall, allegedly to try to avoid a discussion of the recent tripartite Naval Conference between the U. S. Britain, Japan (TIME, June 27, et. seq.). A well-defined movement to blame Britain for the failure seemed, however, to be in the making...
...held that a good showing by the Government, which for Mexican purposes meant an appeal to the peons against avaricious U. S. capitalists (as well as placing the blame on the Coolidge Administration for causing a rift in Mexican-U. S. relations by its "indecision"), would be excellent propaganda for the, Obregonists...
...their errors and to agree basically (although with excuses) to proposals of the plenary session by giving a declaration. ... In view of this declaration, the plenary session has decided to withdraw the question about exclusion of Trotzky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee and to admonish them with severe blame and a warning." What did these so contradictory decisions portend? Soon the dean of U. S. correspondents at Moscow, Walter Duranty of the New York Times, cabled an opinion: "All signs now indicate that the Communist Party has emerged stronger than ever from what appeared to be the gravest crisis...
...Most To Blame? Chief U. S. Delegate Hugh Simons Gibson and Chief British Delegate the Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman each maintained to the bitter end last week,-that the plan of his own delegations...