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...State Department also permitted the Japs to seize the political initiative in Asia, by gifts and promises of gifts of territory to its satellites in Burma, Thailand, Nanking and French Indo-China. Said the New York Times of this U.S. blunder: "We cannot win [Asiatic good will] unless we have something to offer, and what we offer will inevitably be measured against what the Japanese have, if only ostensibly, begun to carry out. ... It is time to give some translation. We may not need to promise full independence . . . but we do have to give some assurance of betterment in their...
...then a widely read magazine like TIME undoes all our good with one inexcusable blunder . . . July 26 issue: "Bumpy does not feel too badly...
...Charge. The British view, from Winston Churchill on down, was that Gandhi's "failure" to die merely showed that the irascible Mahatma's bluff had been called at last. Cranky old George Bernard Shaw exploded ("stupidest blunder . . . the King should release Gandhi unconditionally as an act of grace"), but Britain as a whole backed the Indian Government. British Tories were solidly anti-Gandhi. Labor Party leaders considered India as a sort of slum-clearance project for future consideration. Most Britons applauded, a New Delhi White Paper: "Only one answer can be given to the question...
...fall. He was pushed: by the farm bloc, by Midwestern Congressmen who loathe gasoline rationing, by Democrats who thought that his restrictions had been the biggest factor in November's election returns. And perhaps the Administration felt it was time to sacrifice him when a new blunder over gas rationing almost left the East gasless...
...recognition" of a "Finnish People's Government" had made him, says Author Scott, "an object of ridicule for [Soviet] streetcar conductors." But most important of all, the invasion of Finland had revealed "considerable deadwood" in the mighty Red Army. In short, Round Two had been "a grotesque blunder" diplomatically; an invaluable proving ground militarily...