Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This remark is the essence of genuine Vansittartism. After nearly 40 years as a British diplomat, Vansittart is convinced that the last peace was lost by the victors' tendency to put all the blame on a handful of men, on "economic pressure," or on the errors of other nations. Similar unreality, he thinks, imperils the present victory...
...shek has rejected their demands for "coalition government and other democratic reforms." (Chungking-Yenan unity negotiations broke down when Yenan refused to surrender control of its army to the National Government or to place it under the command of a U.S. Chief of Staff.) With an eye to future blame, Yenan added: The Kuomintang "proposes to use the P.P.C. and the constitutional convention as a preparation for civil war." (The Communists and the National Government have been carrying on a civil war almost uninterruptedly since...
Some of you may ask, "General education--what's that? I'm interested only in liberal education--that's what the country needs." My reply to that question is, I hope you will read the book. For the use of the phrase "general education" I must take the blame. For the committee that was appointed by the President of the University and provided with a $60,000 budget by the Corporation was given the assignment of reporting on "The Objectives of a General Education in a Free Society." They were asked to consider Harvard College in the light...
...King Farouk thought the British were to blame for Egypt's censorship. Thought the editors: "Not entirely. The King's own Ministers had been too fond of that weapon...
...editors, who disagreed with, but liked, the Russians, did not blame Tass alone for such distortions of the U.S. scene: "One of the chief complaints we found from our diplomats and information staffs was that our own news services, A.P., U.P., and I.N.S., were doing the same thing, sending out items they thought would be used and displayed . . . to build up their services, without regard to whether people . . . were getting a picture of America. . . . Too often it is race riots, murders, Hollywood loves, divorces...