Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daily "comment sheets" by the editors note the progress of eager candidates. "Conant," runs one of these memorializing the efforts of a now famous College president, "escapes only because he didn't have the chance to blunder...
...definite threat, they said. They saw no hope that the United Nations would develop "in time" the authority to prevent another war. The threat, they reported, could be divided into two parts. The first was Phase I, which was the turbulent present, when the world at any moment could blunder into war. If war came in Phase I, it would come by accident, not from design. No potential enemy of the U.S. was yet prepared for war. The commissioners found no evidence that other nations are producing atomic weapons in quantity...
...barring people from visiting here because they have a different view of the world and its problems is stupid." The Worker missed the point: technically, neither was being barred for his views, but for running afoul of U.S. immigration laws. The Herald Tribune thought the dispute a needless blunder: "Two or three telephone calls, made in time, would have cleared [it] up." But by the time it had reached the policy level of the State Department, whose lower levels should have caught it first, it was not that easy. The whole system of U.N. accreditation, the U.S. felt, needed "drastic...
...face, the Cominform Manifesto looked like a mistake. France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault called it "just one more blunder." Millions of French and Italian voters had been deluded into believing that Communist national parties in their countries were not subject to outside orders. What did the Communists gain by advertising, at this point, the fact that their national parties were not independent? That was the mystery...
Once the Army realized its fiscal blunder, it went to work to rectify it by fobbing off the marks on soldiers and occupation personnel in Germany. For all goods and services supplied by Germans, such as telephones, railroad tickets, furniture, etc., the Army paid them from its hoard of marks. But for the use of these services, the Army charged soldiers and occupation personnel in occupation script, a strictly controlled U.S. currency. In effect, the Army was getting dollars for the marks it was giving the Germans. Even charitable funds sent to Germany were converted into marks before being paid...