Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny Oahu, three admirals and three generals were last week investigating who was to blame for Pearl Harbor (see U.S. AT WAR). In the three years since the disaster, the people variously connected with the affair have had various histories...
...President read their memorandum warning him against compromise? The White House switchboard began to buzz with incoming calls. But the President did not answer. Muttered one top New Dealer: "Now we're in one hell of a fix. Roosevelt, by God, has only himself to blame." Finally word went to Texas' New Dealers: Never mind the Stevenson plan; fight for control of the Dallas convention...
...Belgians still blame the King for his 1940 surrender, but many blame him for not encouraging resistance. Still others resent his second marriage after the death (in a car he was driving) of popular, Swedish-born Queen Astrid. To all these Belgians, a regency for Astrid's handsome son, Prince Baudouin, 14, looked good. The next few weeks would tell whether the stewardship of the Government in Exile looked equally good...
...despite his new humility, Poet Auden does not lay sole blame for the blunders of contemporary thought on the artist and creative thinker. For the plain people clamor at the artist's door, promising him devotion and rich rewards if he will only distract them from the harshness of life by painting it in magic colors and assuring them that their idle dreams and nostalgia are true and good. They cry: "Carry me back, Master, to the cathedral town where the canons run through the water meadows with butterfly nets and the old women keep sweetshops in the cobbled...
Army procurement officers, perfectly willing to share the blame for the shortage, claim that their buying has leveled...