Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...snapped Lucas. But if it got down to cases, he wanted to point out that the Republicans had used up 57% of the debating time, not counting the Republican-abetted filibuster of the Southern Democrats over civil rights. Michigan's Homer Ferguson produced some figures to shift the blame right back to the Democrats. As he had it, the Republicans had used up only 1,563 and one-ninth pages of the Record; Democrats had used 1,612 and four-ninths...
...fair and reasonable observer can blame the British Socialists for causing their country's economic crisis. But they can be blamed for aggravating it. London's Economist, while reiterating its opinion that the crisis is "an expression of volcanic upheavals in the economy of the whole world" (see below), last week wrote...
...should pointedly recall the $3.75 billion U.S. loan to Britain, which the British had long since run through, and more than a billion dollars worth of ECAid, which had kept the British going so far. It was also natural that the press of a capitalist, free-enterprising democracy should blame Britain's Socialist government and its works (e.g., nationalization of coal and railroads, the billion-dollar-a-year health plan) for a lot of Britain's trouble. U.S. press comment ranged from the thoughtful view that Britain's Socialist regime had merely aggravated a British economic weakness...
...ground President knew that all the unrest could not be blamed on Communists. "Special powers are not enough," he said. "We must put an end to the origin of the evil...The Communists took advantage of the situation, but also the self-interest of some other quarters is much to blame. Capital was given remunerative prices; now it is time for workers to get the same." He proposed reforms in public medical care, better pension laws. And he ordered bus fares reduced...
Leech's "Utopia on the Rocks-British Socialism in Action" was a readable but superficial, highly editorialized and sparsely documented roundup of the crisis.What Journalist Leech had set out to prove was that most of the blame for Britain's plight lay on the Labor government and its Socialism. What he proved more sharply was that Britons had been largely unaware of the rising tide of criticism of the Labor government and the new crisis. They had been brushing off attacks as mere Tory politicking, were shocked to discover that many of the same criticisms were being made...