Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promise or major diplomatic blunder was in the wording: "Full understanding was reached . . . with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe...
...Stanley Johnston had been recommended for a citation for bravery in the Battle of the Coral Sea, and Managing Editor Maloney had been a U.S. flyer in World War I, serving in Eddie Rickenbacker's squadron in France. At worst it looked as if they had committed a blunder in failing to take into account what such a story might reveal...
Salute Wanted. A Buenos Aires theater quickly postponed a showing of the new Nazi film U-Boats on the Western Track. There were street fights; German and Italian business houses were stoned. Germany's blunder clearly did not help such German propaganda as that reported by the captain of the freighter Rio Gallegos, just back in port. He told how a Nazi submarine commander had stopped him north of Bermuda, presented him with a Nazi decoration (from the commander's own breast) and a bottle of champagne...
Hitler's, Blunder. Completely isolated from all news of the outside world, those who had been interned in Germany had picked up only odds & ends of information. A.P.'s balding Louis Lochner deflated the myth of the effectiveness of German propaganda. The ''greatest blunder" of Hitler's career, Lochner said, was when he "took upon himself the odium of declaring war upon the U.S." Having for months told the German people that "we won't let ourselves be provoked" by the U.S. pre-war attitude, Hitler then had to confront his people with...
...laughingstock to millions of Italians. His daughter, Edda Ciano, was aware of the shame, prayed for an hour each day in a Roman cathedral. Her husband, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, appeared everywhere flanked by secret-service men. He was as bitter as the people. "No wonder we blunder," he said. "Mussolini is lovesick-so lovesick he has no time for affairs of state...