Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness stand stepped Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow, chief of the Army's War Plans Division in 1941, to accept full blame for one of Pearl Harbor's most egregious errors. On Nov. 27, a sharp warning of impending hostilities had gone out from General Marshall to Lieut. General Walter C. Short in Hawaii. On Nov. 28, General Short replied that he had ordered an alert against sabotage-which was like saying he had a butterfly net ready for a tiger. Yet his reply was never challenged by Washington...
Then up stepped General Marshall himself to take part of the blame. He didn't recall seeing the Short message; he should have. "That was my opportunity to intervene and I didn't take it," he confessed. "Just why, I do not know...
...error in timing, little blame attached to Opposition Leader Winston Churchill. Young Tory leaders, anxious to drive home their point that demobilization, trade and housing were being neglected, forced him to premature action. Once in action, he roared like a toothless lion...
...Your editors are properly disturbed by the reduction of our armed might; for until some really intelligent provisions are made for international security, power is the world's only hope. But you can't blame the Congressmen, nor can you blame the G.I.s whom you have been accusing recently of making a sorry impression in Germany...
Plan Green also provided for an "incident" to provoke German intervention. One idea: to kill Germany's minister to Prague and blame it on the Czechs. The timely intervention of Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier at Munich saved Minister Dr. Ernst Eisenlohr's life...