Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps the most stubborn fact of all was distrust. If the western Allies distrusted the aims of Russia, few could blame Marshal Stalin if he distrusted the aims of the western Allies. Europe was seething with social unrest. As the result of the war, immense political and social dislocations had taken place. Time & again Russia had demonstrated that she had a program, the will and the means to deal with this unrest. But neither Britain...
...Christians. South of the Chavantes live the Bororos. Nominal Christians, they work on the farms of the Catholic priests who converted them, but frequently disappear on week-long hunting trips. Their big game is Brazilians, whose skulls they mash in the classic Chavante manner, in hope of laying the blame on their pagan neighbors. Brazilian frontiers men fear them more than they do the Chavantes, and wish that they had never been converted to Christianity...
Naval aviators thought they knew precisely whom to blame for this slight. Never in public, but frequently in tight-lipped private conversation, they have pointed the finger at Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, boss of everything which flies, or floats or walks or rolls under Navy insignia. "Ernie"' King, they feel, has never given aviation the recognition it rates as the punch of the modern U.S. Navy...
...second thought, ex-Critic Atkinson decided that sackcloth & ashes was not the proper wear for civilians: "There is no blame to be attached to New York's attitude toward the war. Circumstances have sheltered New York from the awful fury and the dullness of war." In effect, he confessed a journalistic failure, for he decided that an understanding of what war is like cannot be had by "taking the war news at polite second hand from the newspapers and radio. War cannot be understood vicariously. Only the men overseas can know what it is all about...
Time to Investigate. Baldwin thought he knew where the blame lay: with the War Department, hamstrung by "conservatism and traditionalism. . . . There is no lack of American inventive genius, no lack of engineering skill, no lack of devotion and energy [among designers and technicians], but there is a superfluity of red tape [among brass hats]; there is overorganization and there is lack of clear, directive vision [with the War Department...