Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adequately told the terrific things that Detroit was doing. Before Pearl Harbor, the nation had been given cruelly revealing figures about how badly production had gone. After Pearl Harbor, with industry taking seven-league strides, the figures of accomplishment were military secrets. Industry had taken the past blame, but it was not given the credit it now deserves...
Personnel. "Why, therefore, should I be called upon to pick out scapegoats and throw the blame upon generals and sacrifice my loyal and trusted colleagues and friends? . . . While I take full responsibility for the broad, strategic dispositions, that does not mean that scandals, inefficiency or misbehavior . . . will not be probed...
...judgment was harsh. It was also measured. It made clear that the U.S. was not hunting a scapegoat for a defeat. The report of the President's five-man investigating commission told finally how the disaster occurred at Hawaii (see cols. 1-2) and it placed the blame, for "dereliction of duty," squarely upon Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Lieut. General Walter C. Short, the commanders on the spot...
...report teemed with instances of courage and devotion to duty of Army and Navy personnel at Oahu. It revealed that headquarters in Washington were alive to the danger. The blame was placed on the two commanders for two common military failings: 1) complacent disbelief in the danger of which they had been warned; 2) feeling that Navy was Navy and Army was Army and never the twain should cooperate...
Excerpts from the report of the Commission headed by Associate Justice Roberts which investigated and fixed the blame for the disaster at Pearl Harbor...