Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first impulse in such a misfortune is to blame someone, and in this case we are wont to ask why the Navy had not put guns on these ships and why our patrol boats were not on the job. Such questioning is ridiculous and unnecessary. There has been no reason to mount guns on coastwise ships and the Atlantic ocean is too large to be completely covered by patrols. When the submarines succeed in such a surprise attack we must be philosophical and not get panicky. In the Spanish War people gave up their homes on the seashore and trooped...
...have something to work for: our pride demands that we redeem ourselves not only in the eyes of Colonel Applin, but in our own. Today's exercise was the best example of unmilitary drill the Regiment has ever given, and at the supper tables the blame for the many confusions was passed from man to man; the captains told their companies that they did not do well and then, the unpleasant scene being ended, ready for a leisurely hour, we drrifted into the New Lecture Hall. That hour revived our morale, we needed a tonic, and we have...
...need so many men, of such and such categories--and it finds them. On the day when there is need for so many thousand young students for such and such branches of the service, you will be told, you will be called; and on that day I should blame you if you did not go, just as vehemently as I now urge you to stay where you are. If it is true that this war is not only a soldier's war but a people's war, we must have strict organization of all resources of the nation. And just...
...wasting of public funds while the Government is being so severely criticized for sluggishness aggravates the situation and places blame where, it is not deserved. Because funds are spent and no results are forthcoming, support falls away from the Administration...
Just how much to blame the Russian people for going back on their allies is difficult to say. To pity them rather than curse them is the fairest way, for there is no sense in heaping coals of fire upon the heads of a demoralized nation. Russia is in a condition where internal reform is the one essential and where a real military resistance is impossible. We believe that by making peace she is throwing herself open to every type of Teuton trick and that Germany will exploit the Slavs solely for what can be drawn out of them...