Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inevitable interpretation on the Canadian case: "A number of scientists have been straining to have the atomic secrets given to Russia. They are so anxious about it that Russia probably can get all the information she wants." If patriotic scientists resented the Senator's implication, they could partly blame the Russian practice of making use of thousands of stooges in other countries...
This was one of the things Mr. Truman had to face. The U.S. public was inclined to criticize him, but sometimes it might be the public that was to blame...
...report. Critic H. L. Mencken, who only knew what he read in the papers, had called its war correspondents "a sorry lot" (TIME, Jan. 14). Expert Pratt, a correspondent himself, is convinced that World War II "was very nearly the worst reported war in history." But he turned the blame elsewhere...
...Japan, "but [it] succeeded beautifully in concealing the name of the commander who asked for reinforcements to quell the 2,000 Japs at Attu when he had only a division of 15,000 men and the support of a fleet." It never told who, if anybody, was to blame for the Kasserine Gap and Ardennes defeats, the torpedoing of the Saratoga and the loss of the Wasp...
Dutch voices here in Java are quick to blame their own "woodenheaded" Parliament for its inability to roll with the punches in imperial British style. Many admit that the freedom movement had not been "made in Japan" (however much it was nurtured by Tokyo). President Soekarno had openly collaborated with the Japanese; but anti-Jap natives still rallied to his nationalist party...