Word: blunderers
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...cause the mails are impossibly slow, Sir Stafford corresponds by cable with his wife in London. Recently he told her he had bought an Airedale named Joe. Last week, Lady Cripps told friends, she wrote a cable to her husband, ended it with "Greetings to Joe," saw her blunder, struck out the last word, substituted "Airedale...
Should Japan follow Italy into the war and cut off the rubber supply. U. S. failure to lay in this stockpile will look like a serious official blunder. No real alternative is to increase the use of reclaimed rubber from its present rate of 28.7% of consumption. For the supply of reclaimable rubber would eventually disappear if there were no fresh rubber imports. Remaining alternatives: 2) to grow rubber in this hemisphere, or 3) to mass-produce it synthetically...
...call on my friends. . . ." Those words were a fatal blunder. By introducing a personal factor into so grave a debate Mr. Chamberlain gave his opponents a club which they wielded mercilessly from that moment on. Most effective use of it was made by hoary Lloyd George, who rapped out: "It is not a question of who is the Prime Minister's friend. It is a far bigger issue. The Prime Minister must remember that he has met this foe of ours in peace and in war and he always has been worsted. He appealed for sacrifice from the nation...
...London, this Gallipoli Day was another bad one for Winston Churchill and his war colleagues in the Chamberlain Government. For out of Scandinavia crackled a story which, on a smaller but similarly bloody scale, charged another blunder like that of the Gallipoli beachheads. It was a story written at white heat by white-haired War Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News, after he visited the Northwestern Expeditionary Force near its beachhead at Namsos, Norway (see p. 22). Mr. Stowe wrote, in indignation, of two advance battalions of raw British troops, without artillery, antiaircraft, supporting planes or even white...
Underlying Cromwell's blunder is a basic fault in the administration of our diplomatic service. American ambassadors receive salaries far too small for the expenses which they are bound to incur as official representatives of the United States Government. The result quite naturally is that very few men can afford to accept the responsibility of diplomatic service and we must expect incompetence...