Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Menthon, the 20 Boches in the dock were not the only guilty ones. The entire German people was to blame, he declared, for Naziism merely had exploited their "power of latent barbarism . . . one of the deepest and most tragic facets of the German soul. . . . Certain of their eternal and deep-seated aspirations have found monstrous expressions under the Hitler regime; their entire responsibility is involved. . . . Their re-education is indispensable...
Last week North Carolina's Governor R. Gregg Cherry commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Said he, in a statement rare for a Southern governor: "The crimes are revolting, but a part of the blame . . . arises from the neglect of the State and society to provide a better environment. . . . Our public schools, equipped with capable teachers . . . [and] an effective compulsory-attendance law, would do much to correct delinquency among all races." Rarer still, in all North Carolina there was no outcry...
...Brother Fritz Busch (citizen of Argentina) conducted Tannhauser at the Metropolitan Opera House and didn't seem to mind that his first try at Tannhauser fortnight ago had been severely panned ("I never blame the critics because I know my virtues and it does not touch me. I start again like a sportsman...
Twangy, caustic Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner-in 1941 chief of the Navy war plans division, in 1942 the man who put the Marines ashore on Guadalcanal-put grey, heavy-jowled Admiral Kimmel at the very core of blame...
Then young Henry Ford made an unusual gesture of his own. He apologized to the U.S. public for falling 50,000 cars short of the 80,000 he had promised to make by Christmas. But he exonerated Ford employes of blame, put it instead on parts suppliers, hampered by price ceilings or by labor troubles of their...