Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blunt terms of domestic politics, any blunder might have completely changed the situation in the Senate; any bold and dramatic action would have given ammunition to critics who believe the President to be unpredictable in foreign affairs. Inaction was unthinkable on moral and political grounds-not only had Finland scrupulously paid her war debt instalments to the U. S., but U. S.-Finnish relations have been an untroubled model of what international relations should be. Moreover a government that publicly and repeatedly frowned on the aggression of Fascist Germany would be placed in a truly remarkable position if it ignored...
...report of the Committee of Nine. Though it is true that President Conant may find partial support in the Committee's recommendations, any insistence upon citations from the report can only make clearer that however admirable in substance, it was in form and in timing a political blunder of the first magnitude. Looking back upon the brief history of President Conant's "concentration-quotas," no member of the University should now feel surprise at the present unhappy outcome of the Committee's devoted labors; and none should despair that President Conant may, in due course, view the appointment problem...
General Gamelin knows all about Bazaine's blunder and he knows also the history of the first Napoleon, who never made such mistakes. Napoleon frequently carried his eagles through the Black Forest into southern Germany. Ulm, Ratisbon and Hohenlinden in the South German Basin were all sites of Napoleonic victories against the various coalitions of Austria, Russia and England. A few miles from Ulm, at Blenheim, the Duke of Marlborough won his "famous Victory" in 1704-the victory over the French that so nonplussed the grandfather of Little Peterkin in Robert Southey's poem. To prevent...
...great unknown factor of the next war is the capacity of the minds that will devise its strategy. Brilliance on one side can make it into a quick and easy victory for either the stronger or the weaker military machine. A bad blunder on one side can turn it into disastrous defeat. Bad blunders on both sides-such as there were in the last war and are in most wars -can turn it into a military stalemate, another human holocaust, a war of economic attrition, with no victor anywhere...
...best thing the Star could think of in the emergency was to try to cover up its blunder. The next edition announced...