Word: blunders
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...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...
...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...