Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. Brabner stated the position of the fighting men, tried to lay no blame for the situation as he found it. But the speakers who followed...
Presidential preoccupation with naval affairs was not solely to blame. An anti-inflation speech would not be the most popular speech the President could make right now. Inflation is an economist's swearword; but a lot of other people are for it so far as it seems to mean higher prices for what they have to sell. Not an organized group, some potential members of the Friends of U.S. Inflation could be counted last week...
...meaning, U.S. citizen was working for peace behind the scenes was too well known to bear denial. After Ambassador John Gilbert Winant had flown from London to Washington, the Axis radio began barking rumors that the British Government was considering peace. President Roosevelt denied it, laid the blame where it belonged...
...became Kaiser at 29, after his ailing father had ruled for 99 days. Determined to rule in his own right, he dismissed Bismarck two years later, in 1890. Historians blame his dropping of the canny old Chancellor for the fate that ultimately humbled Germany, and certainly Wilhelm's arrogance and indiscretion made him many enemies. He got huffy with his Uncle Bertie (Edward VII of Great Britain) after his father's funeral, and in 1896 enraged all Britain by sending a telegram of sympathy to the Boer leader, Oom Paul Kruger. He refused to renew the Reinsurance Treaty...
...such acts historians blame the creation of the Triple Entente, giving Germany enemies on both sides. Yet history has shown that a deeper, more instinctive fear of the Germans had led Europe always to oppose them. Under the Kaiser, Germany once more swelled with power and pride; once more she threatened to burst her boundaries. Under Wilhelm, Germany built a mighty Navy to threaten Britain, a mightier Army to threaten France and Russia, a mighty economy which threatened to follow the Kaiser's pet Berlin-Bagdad Railway to domination of the Middle East (see p. 22). The Triple Entente...