Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sons, a Memphian for eight years. Wrote House-wife-Citizen Richardson : "I am not satisfied here, have never been. Those who do not approve of conditions here are advised to keep their mouths shut. From where I stand it seems that those who kept their mouths shut are to blame for the shameful conditions here...
...very bulk of the documents (130,000 words) was forbidding. The New York Times printed it all and sat down. Congressmen, before they had read it through, shouted that it was a "whitewash" or that it was incomplete. Harry Truman said that it proved everyone was to blame...
Navy Court of Inquiry. In a long, detailed and milky-mild document, the Navy three-man court made it clear why "Betty" Stark should at least share the blame with Kimmel...
Hull (said the Board) had to share in the blame because his Nov. 26 "ultimatum" to the Japanese, delivered when the Army and Navy were desperately playing for time, had "hastened" the onslaught. Hull's note was no ultimatum (it was his last word). But (said the Board) "it is significant that the Secretary of War had to go and call on Mr. Hull to get the information on what amounted to the cessation of negotiations, which was the most vital thing that had occurred...
...rapidly as it should. There is "delay in announcing and making cutbacks, lack of both raw and semifinished materials and tools, insufficient in formation available for industry to make plans far enough in advance, and lack of manpower in some key places. . . ." The committee laid some of the blame on former OWMBoss Fred Vinson (now Secretary of the Treasury). His office, said the committee, had spent too much time laying down broad policy, "is not accessible to a man with a problem." It also gave the back of its hand to the Army: "The Army is continuing to utilize...