Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fault lies not with the top military command. The Chief of Staff conceived a sound program for giving the best soldier in the world the treatment demanded to preserve the American qualities that make him the best soldier. Its essence was to treat the soldier with respect as an individual...
...fault lies in the Army system, which allows any small mind anywhere in the chain of command to destroy such a program. An abstraction like the dignity of man was particularly vulnerable and abhorrent to the small minds. The result was that the majority of American soldiers throughout their Army careers have been insulted by the mutilation of every principle of personal integrity for which most of them knew in their hearts they were fighting. Is it any wonder they apply political pressure...
...made us as dirt and dung among the nations. . . . We are deserving of all that is happening to us at this time. It is our, fault, our great fault. . . . O God . . . watch over those who have power over our powerlessness and show them that hate can never accomplish anything...
...rnberg expended little thought or care on their former leaders. Once, in this very town, they had cheered them year after year with apoplectic fervor. Now, one of them said: "The trials? Na ja. Of course criminals should be brought to trial. It isn't the fault of us poor people." Said another: "You accuse them of making war. Are you not preparing new wars...
...last ones that should talk about how we act. We came over here with good faith in you, the American people, and now instead of standing behind us you take a few moments off from your money-grabbing and squabbling not to help us but to find fault with our job. Instead of setting a good example for other nations to follow, you as a nation act so shamefully that we are almost ashamed to own you as fellow citizens...