Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunniest thought among Republican farmer leaders, after he had gone, was that he had probably not lost any votes. Still ebullient, unaware of the fiasco, back aboard his train, Willkie issued a public challenge to Roosevelt to debate in Baltimore. Still confident, he rode on to Milwaukee...
...tradition that Britain's frigate captains of one war make her fighting admirals in the next. His latest post was in the Mediterranean as No. 2 to Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, whose recent exploits have been strong tonic to Prime Minister Churchill and the entire nation. The Dakar fiasco, after which Mr. Churchill mentioned "accidents and some errors . . . disciplinary action," afforded excuse for a high command shakeup and it was wholly probable that Sir Charles Forbes took the rap for his underlings...
General de Gaulle had gone to the Cameroons, which had declared for him along with most of French Equatorial Africa, straight from his failure at Dakar. Despite that fiasco, he still had hope. Said he: "I cite Hitler's words from Mein Kampf that a people may be beaten, but when a people and their leaders accept defeat, then they are forever lost. On the other hand, if a handful of men do not accept defeat, everything is to be hoped for. The Cameroons will have a place in the history of this war and the history...
...British have a weakness for lost causes like that of Quiberon. There have been others-Barcelona in 1705, Toulon in 1793, Norway in 1940. But the worst of them all, because the job looked so easy and the repercussions of failure were so drastic, was last week's fiasco at Dakar...
...denied that German parachute troops had worn Dutch uniforms, declared that there were some half a dozen different Nazi uniforms which might easily have been mistaken for Dutch by untrained observers. He glorified the German air force; pooh-poohed the Allied blockade. Said he matter-of-factly: "The Norway fiasco has taken the heart out of the British people"; added that in the bombing raids over Great Britain civilians around the Thames estuary had ventured out of their bombproof shelters into the vicinity of military objectives and had been injured by their own shells and shrapnel falling on them; signed...