Word: faulted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economic Deterioration. Then there is economic deterioration. China was able to keep her economy in surprisingly good balance until a complete blockade was slapped upon her in 1942, and that was not her fault. We and the British controlled the seas, but we could not keep the sea lanes open to China and the British could not hold Burma and so China was completely cut off. The blockade had the same effect on her as it had on our South in the War between the States. The South was not industrialized, as China is not industrialized. The South...
What can we do to help? First, we have got to cut out this irresponsible, unbalanced criticism of the Chinese for things that do not exist or are not their fault or would be present in any country after comparable disasters. We have got to stop trying to force the Chinese to do what we think is best. They are an eminently reasonable people, but they cannot be browbeaten or coerced...
...would have to pass some such bill-if not what the President asked-for it was becoming painfully apparent that Harry Truman was right: there would be major unemployment in many places and, unless adequate relief was provided, serious hardship would follow both for labor and business-through no fault and beyond the control of either...
...know how it is," Reynard confided to Grimbart. "One cannot always keep himself as holy as if he lived in a monastery. The fault is not always with me. Take, for example, that confounded Hare. The rascal was as fat as butter. I loved that Hare but he would go scampering around under my nose, and the time came when affection was no longer a match for appetite...
Probably the chief fault of the first part is that it fails to grasp the tremendous depths of evil in Brutus Jones. While O'Neill draws him as a devil incarnate, who stops at nothing to achieve his end, the English version, played by Paul Robeson, is of an aggressive man, who committed his sins unavoidably...