Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mexico verged on war, and the Axis had only itself to blame. Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla had already sent the Axis a violent ultimatum on the torpedoing of the Potrero del Llano (TIME, May 25). Then last week off Cuba the Axis bungled into torpedoing the 6,607-ton tanker Faja de Oro, which Mexico had grabbed from Italy last year, and whose commander openly boasted last month that he had rammed and sunk an Axis...
Colonel Knerr places partial blame on the "old guard in the Army," but the full force of his attack falls on the Navy command: "The average 60-year-old admiral contemplates the tortures of hell a lot more cheerfully than he contemplates being commanded by an Army general...
...advocated a negotiated peace. Stepping out of Joachim von Ribbentrop's plane in 1939, Fish opined that Germany's claims were "just." Two months ago he finally went before a District Court to explain his relations with George Sylvester Viereck, Nazi propaganda agent, and there let the blame fall on his secretary, George Hill, already in jail for perjury in the matter...
...worst, it is certainly the most disappointing. Playwrights like Odets, Maxwell Anderson, Ben Hecht, Marc Connolly, and John Steinbeck exhibited plays that failed to win either critical or public acclaim. Various reasons have been advanced for the poor theatrical season: the critics blame it on confused playwrights; the playwrights on destructive criticism; and the procedures blame it on present economic conditions, on labor unions, on critics, and on the public...
...this "Tag! You're it" melee it is difficult to see just what has happened. Obviously the blame cannot be fastened on any one faction. Our playwrights have been confused and temporarily caught off base; our critics, perhaps a trifle sterilized by their ancient standards of judgment, could be of more constructive aid; and surely the unions could temper their constricting closed shop policy and allow a few more economically budgeted productions to receive a Broadway showing. This might have aided the Group Theatre, one of the few enterprising endeavors in New York, and kept them alive this past season...