Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, however, many Britons were reflecting that Winston Churchill, after all, bore a responsibility for the capabilities of the men around him. It was widely suspected that, if they had been at fault, the fault had been as much, if not more, the Prime Minister...
Some Senators will yell "Dictatorship!" without realizing that it's their own fault. Dictatorship strikes a democracy only when it's legislature has decayed completely, and is not established by a strong man's seizing power when no one is looking. If wartime rule by the executive results from Congressional palsy, the blame will lie solely on Capitol Hill, not on the White House...
...recall was all the more baffling because, since the U.S. entered the war, China's very practical Foreign Minister T. V. Soong has also been stationed in Washington. Between them, they might have seemed to be diplomatically irresistible. If China was not getting its due, the fault might lie with the U.S. rather than with the Chinese Embassy. Dr. Hu's friends hoped that one persistent Washington rumor was true: that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had a big job for Dr. Hu in China...
Wherever Negroes gather in the U.S., hands rise just as quickly to such a question. To them Lift Every Voice and Sing is the No. 2 song to the national anthem. While white people bemoan the lack of suitable patriotic songs, even find fault with The Star-Spangled Banner's annoying octave-and-a-half range, colored people have quietly adopted a rousing anthem of their...
...basic fault in war production to date has been that the Army & Navy have insisted on ordering everything, from battleships to pistol cartridges, that might prove useful in any kind of a war anywhere on the face of the earth. No Production Boss can balance production and avoid shortages unless he persuades-or forces-the military strategists to adopt a specific, limited program calling for specific types of material. Thus far Nelson has lost practically every round with the Army & Navy, which in general still insist on building everything at once. And this fundamental error overstrains production from raw materials...