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...attitude had been produced mainly by Russian abuse of the veto. On 46 occasions the U.S.S.R. had demonstrated that the Security Council was helpless. The Korean decision itself was made possible by a fluke; the Russians who had taken a walk probably would never again repeat their blunder of boycotting the Council...
Schuman found sympathizers on the faculty. Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government and former political advisor to General Lucius Clay in Germany, said that immediate rearmament of Germany would be a "major blunder." There are many reasons for this, but the main one is that rearmament now would promote "the most unreliable elements in Germany," while weakening those political elements we (the U.S.) depend on most heavily, Friedrich maintained...
...Sheldon's scientific colleagues. But to protesting parents at the University of Washington, science seemed to be going too far. In fact, science seemed to be invading the privacy of mankind. In the face of the storm, President Allen admitted that staffwomen had been guilty of a blunder at least: they had not fully explained to the girls why they were posing or that the posing was voluntary...
While White House aides sat around appalled, even Harry Truman decided that he had better do something. He prepared to do what no other President within memory has done: make a public apology for an egregious blunder.*The White House speech-writers were called in to carve out a statement...
Conclusion. Militarily, preventive war by the U.S. in 1950 would be a blunder of tragic proportions. The U.S. would lose more than it could hope to gain. In such a situation the question of the morality of preventive war, which troubles many Americans, may not even arise. Whether or not preventive war is morally bad, the facts of 1950 make it military nonsense...