Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With sweeping scorn, Jackson tackled their common excuse that only Hitler was to blame. "The defendants may have become slaves of a dictator, but he was their dictator. . . . They were the Praetorian Guard, and while they were under Caesar's orders, Caesar was always in their hands. ... If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say . . . there are no slain. . . ." In his opening speech eight weary months ago, Jackson had boldly raised the question of the trial's moral and legal basis. He avoided that overriding issue...
...attempt to put the finger of blame on any one or any thing for this predicament is either impossible or difficult. You might find fault with Hindustan climatology, and carefully show the effects of the monsoon rain on the caloric intake of the Bengali peasant; there is some relation. Or you might find the Hindu religion, totalling 65 percent of the population, a hindrance to progress in its rigid caste definitions. Then, there are always the British, for it was through their policy of laissez-faire that little or no social advancement was achieved in India...
...Forces, I developed strong Labor sympathies and a firm conviction that the Conservatives were unprogressive and antisocial. I was elated when Labor came into power, but even I have to admit sadly that this last year has been very dull. However, I refuse to pour down accusations and blame on the Laborites, and consider it the result of our impoverished postwar position...
...domestic front, which is closer though not less important to Britons, Bevin's counterpart is Herbert Morrison. To him goes the credit and the blame for what Labor did and did not do to raise the lives of Britons above the level most of them had come to consider intolerable. The British electorate, being human, would judge the Labor Party by how much food and clothes and fun Herbert Morrison managed to get for them, rather than by how loudly Ernie Bevin's voice boomed out in international councils...
...doctor cheerily avoids the word "cancer"? Again, eight out of ten might consent to surgery; but some, if their cancers recur, "will blame the doctor by stating that the operation was not worthwhile" and say that they would never have consented if they had known the true nature of their disease. And two might refuse surgery until too late because they had not been warned clearly of their condition...