Word: confusionism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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He gave shrewd emphasis to a point few military men could consider without sympathy: he had arrived in the Philippines only nine days before the U.S. landings on Leyte, had been unfamiliar with the country, the people and even his own officers; thereafter he had been involved in the nerve...
Voice of Confusion. The ragbaggy old darling of the U.S.'s expatriate intelligentsia did not seem to care very much. Lolling in the infirmary of the D.C. jail, he denied that he had ever talked treason: "I was only trying to tell the people of Europe and America how...
With counter-radar in full swing, a major raid on Europe became a complex business. Decoy planes dropped streamers of Window, filling the scopes of the Nazis' early-warning radars with swarms of imaginary bombers. From the cliffs of England, Tuba boomed its blasts, adding to the confusion. As...
The confusion at Pearl Harbor was being confounded in the U.S. press last week.
Neither the islands nor the job were new to McNutt, but both had changed immeasurably since his prewar term (1937-39) as U.S. High Commissioner. The ruins of Philippine economy were almost as visible as the ghastly wreckage of Manila. Business was virtually paralyzed, black markets had shot prices out...