Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Businessmen," wrote their longtime friend, Editor David Lawrence of the United States News, "are about to be given the same dose of smear publicity that they were given in 1933. Economic crisis is at hand and political government wants to shift the blame from its own shoulders...
...asked "How much good is U.N. in a showdown?" might soon have an answer. Russia's Gromyko had vetoed the mild U.S. resolution to set up a two-year border watch there. He threatened now to veto every other scheme the Council could invent to fasten the blame where it belonged-on Greece's Sovietsupported Balkan neighbors. What, then, could...
Andrei & the Wolf. Said Gromyko, in effect: the Greek Government is to blame for all the border troubles. Foreign military missions (meaning the U.S. and British) must be withdrawn. Foreign economic aid (meaning U.S.) must be subject to a commission that included Russia. Otherwise the situation would end in the servitude of Greece. (Later, Gromyko?who has conscientiously learned to speak excellent English even though he persists in speaking Russian most of the time?poked a pencil at the translator and said that he had meant "enslavement" and not "servitude.") Intervention by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania was a "myth. Intervention...
Survival v. Socialism. The men around the table could blame much, but by no means all, of Britain's plight on the war. They had bungled. They had never made up their minds whether they should give priority to housing or to food production. They had disastrously overestimated Britain's ability to export, underestimated her need for dollars. They had concentrated on their pet nationalization schemes instead of all-out production. They had fulfilled the long-standing Socialist promises of higher pay and shorter hours at a time when production costs needed to be lowered and workers needed...
...spent 40 weeks working on two scripts; both have now been shelved. Says she: "I'll never do it again. The movies are no good for me. What I hate most is the misuse of the medium, and there's no use putting the blame on the twelve-year-old intelligence of the public. Rather it is the utter ignorance of the people who make movies. They create in perfect cynicism what they think will sell . . . . I have no word to say of what I think of their [the movies'] evil...