Word: blame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen years after he was retired and charged with dereliction of duty, and almost 13 years after a court of inquiry cleared him of blame, Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, 75, four-star commander of the Navy's Pacific Fleet when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, was honored by his Annapolis classmates. Last week, in an election hailed by the Naval Academy's alumni magazine as "an affirmation of faith by those who have known him well for more than 50 years," Admiral Kimmel was named alumni president of the class...
C.L.U. leaders were quick to blame defeat on antilabor "smears" and the exposures of labor racketeering by the McClellan committee. But the Minneapolis Tribune had a more accurate postmortem: "The voters want independent officials . . . The overall effect of the election was a crushing defeat for C.L.U. bossism...
...still have hope," he told newsmen that morning. "But assuming that the worst has happened, I would not blame the man as much as the society that produces such men. It's a society that allows sex magazines on the stands for our kids to read, a society that measures Hollywood stars by their bosoms, a society where the telling of dirty stories and using foul language is commonplace. These things produce sex perverts out of people who have the slightest abnormal tendencies. They are encouraged by everything around them. Until the day society changes its fundamental moral principles...
Chiang apportions blame among Russian maneuvers, Japanese aggression, Chinese dupes and traitors, U.S. naiveté-including Yalta's giveaway of Manchuria and the disastrous U.S. attempt (the Marshall mission) to mediate between the Nationalists and the Reds. But he does not dodge his own responsibility, charges himself with the basic fault of again and again having dealt with Russia and the Communists as men of good will. Each time the Chinese Reds were nearly defeated, "coexistence"' again saved them: "We were overconfident . . . We erred in being too lenient...
...fetus (TIME, Dec. 31). Now more such evidence is piling up. In London's Lancet, Psychologist Denis H. Stott of Bristol University reports a study of 102 mentally retarded children, makes a strong case that prenatal influences (as opposed to injury during birth or later illness) are to blame...