Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blunder or not, the noble friend's slip confirmed other developments. Although most of the fleet was anchored for the Easter holiday off British bases, other warships have already quietly taken up patrol duty in the North Sea. At military airports there was great activity. Sea approaches to Britain have again been mined, as they were last September...
...Japanese Ambassador to the U. S.; of tuberculosis; in Washington. A gay little man whose wife likened him to a tireless, leaping carp, Ambassador Saito was the youngest, most popular Japanese Ambassador ever to come to Washington. After the sinking of the Panay, which he called a "shocking blunder," he took the unprecedented course of apologizing over the radio, canceled all engagements, cried: "I'm in the doghouse...
Trip 6 got away safely from Medford, Ore. after midnight, with seven radio ranges, their beams running in four quadrants, to guide him to Oakland. But at Medford, Stead had already made his first blunder. He failed to fill his gasoline tanks. From Medford, on instruments, against a heavy headwind and an hour behind schedule, he went down the south leg of the Fort Jones range, passed the Red Bluff localizer, reported that the Sacramento range was drowning out the Williams beam (which ground stations reported was operating without interference). Then, for almost an hour, Trip 6 was silent...
...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...