Word: blundered
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...talk, British newsorgans picked up the lecture and were soon printing the details in full. British Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps fortnight ago called on M. Daladier for an explanation. Angered, M. Daladier called in Foreign Minister Bonnet, gave him a talking to, warned him that another such "blunder" would cost him his job. Then came from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs a sonorous denial that the original Bonnet interview had ever taken place, which few, and least of all the foreign embassies, believed...
...never too late to amend a tragic blunder and enable a sister democracy to exercise its legal right of purchasing arms from us. While it is true that this should have been done long ago, it required the unbridled aggression of the past year in Austria, Czechoslovakia, China, and Spain, finally to convince millions of Americans that sooner or later, unless the aggressors were stoped, the peace and security of their own democracy would be threatened...
...Innocence so constantly finds itself in a false position that inwardly innocent people learn to be disingenuous. . . . The system of our affections is too corrupt for them. They are bound to blunder, then to be told they cheat. In love, the sweetness and violence they have to offer involves a thousand betrayals for the less innocent. . . . The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet-when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round...
Every time the Rose Bowl game came around, sportswriters reminded their readers of his monumental blunder. Even last fall, when Oakland féted Transcontinental Flyer Douglas Corrigan, the local entertainment committee dragged Roy Riegels from the asparagus farm where he had retired to avoid people, to shake hands publicly with the new Wrong-Way Champion...
...item 1) Mr. Ziff states that the British policy has been that of divide and rule. I for one agree with him on that point but to go on further and say that the English have carefully nursed Arab anti-Semitism is a shocking blunder. Since when have the Arabs become Aryans and since when have the Jews acquired the monopoly over Semitism...