Word: blundered
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...responsible for the blunder, Vandenberg refused to say. He insisted that "there was nothing at all sinister about it." But there could be no question that it was Vandenberg's laxity which let it slip into print...
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...