Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again, Unity of Command. Blame for the costly Solomons campaign, which he said was "not well organized and was not followed up at all," Congressman Maas fixed on the whipping boy called lack-of-unity-of-command. His criticism of the separation of the Ghormley (now Halsey) and MacArthur commands came just twelve days after General Marshall said that unity of command had been achieved. But Congressman Maas and General Marshall meant two different things...
...longer could the Republican minority in Congress sit by as grandstand critic, make its protests for the record, leave policy up to the New Deal, take none of the responsibilities and wait to capitalize on the mistakes. Henceforth, if the war went badly, the G.O.P. would share the blame...
...chooses her singers for looks and intelligence, puts them through their paces with iron discipline, fires them for the slightest laxity or sign of flagging interest. Yolanda Mero-lrion takes personal credit or blame for every move her 100 singers. 90 musicians and 20-odd conductors and technical executives make. Says she, in her Magyar-tinged English: "Only one cook can spoil this broth. I have to do everything myself." So far, critics agree, Impresario Irion has spoiled nothing...
Baldwin's account suggested that the blame for these and other losses did not belong exclusively to Vice Admiral Robert L. Ghormley, the area commander whom the Navy relieved last fortnight. Baldwin named no names, but he implied that inept, overtimid, task-force commanders may have been at least partly to blame. His major conclusion: "The Solomons have clearly shown deficiencies-which stem from overcaution and the defensive complex-that must be remedied. If mistakes continue, we can defeat ourselves...
Outspoken Colonel Knerr had frequently declared that the Army and Navy were very far from "real and harmonious cooperation," that the Navy was principally to blame, that the Navy was strangling the full use of air power (TIME, June 1). Last week he canceled a lecture at Milwaukee's Town Hall, but later received permission from Secretary Stimson himself to resume his magazine writings and lectures within the limits of proper discretion. Whether these limits, as fixed by the War Department, left him anything to talk or write about, Colonel Knerr had yet to learn...