Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Were Hearsay. The fact was that the Hanley report was neither the carefully documented truth nor a deliberate propaganda maneuver. It was an Army blunder of appalling proportions. Under urgent prodding from Washington, Far Eastern Commander Matt Ridgway hastily dispatched two officers to Pusan to check Hanley's facts. The officers found that Hanley had thrown together reports from Korean refugees, captured enemy soldiers and hearsay to get his totals. He had only a handful of documented cases (the Pentagon, which eventually gets all such atrocity reports, had been able to establish only about...
...could scarcely be held responsible for Hanley's exaggerations, or the blunder at Ridgway's headquarters. The Chinese, like other Communists, have committed atrocities, and the U.S. was justified in insisting that exchange of prisoners be made part of any final cease-fire agreement. But by supplying suspect material for an emotional propaganda attack, Hanley damaged the real case against the free world's enemy...
...theme was "Plunder at home, blunder abroad." |Instead of being a responsive instrument to the people's will," he stated, "the government imposes its will on the people... Instead of looking trustfully toward it for enlightened leadership, the people apprehensively await the next official directive, the next arbitrary restriction, the next capricious bureaucratic regulation. In short, we have stood by complacently while a concerted effort was made to scrap the time-honored system of government by laws, in favor of government...
...even a Liberal ought to have good intentions; and what does bridge-playing indicate in a politician,.except maybe a liking for bridge? And when you say that he bumbles . . . what is it that you wish to convey? Does he hum like a bee, cry like a bittern, bungle, blunder, bustle, or muffle...
...heedlessly took the quickest and easiest action. This has led to no economy but to plenty of headaches. The V.A. functions to benefit veterans with an inexpensive education. Its staff is supposedly competent to handle all veterans' problems and it certainly could avoid such a costly internal blunder...