Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary Knox denounced the Neutrality Act. "I am a firm believer, like the President, in the traditional policy of the freedom of the seas. I have been yelling for repeal of the Neutrality Act ever since it became a law. . . . I have always regarded that Act as a terrible blunder...
...said he always had regarded the neutrality law as a "terrible blunder...
...Navy's one big admitted blunder has been its longtime failure to provide protection for anti-aircraft gun crews on the decks of its vessels. The Navy's Secretary Frank Knox* said last month: "Our officers appreciated the possibility of air attack, but their failure to translate the appreciation into protection for the ships is the one real miscalculation they made during the 20 years of peace." This miscalculation of the effectiveness of aircraft also was mirrored in the failure of the High Command to provide as much aircraft equipment as a modern navy should have...
...citizens and editors of London grew petulant last week over what seemed to them a gross blunder in British strategy: denuding Libya to undertake a hopeless campaign in Greece. The apparent threat to the Suez Canal had them scared. "This is no diversion," said the London Evening News. "Glossing it over with vague, official words of comfort-words which long since have lost all their par value on the public market-is mere futility. The blunt truth is that while we were sitting back easily congratulating ourselves on our triumphs over the Italians, the Germans got to work...
...brave people of London were half-informed, and their nerves were worn down by many things. They were wrong about the blunder...