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...sinking of the cruiser Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea last July, with the loss of 880 lives-was unveiled in full detail last week. Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz called in newsmen, said: "We have no desire or intention to deny any of our mistakes." Then he confessed four grievous ones...
...disasters in the long road from Poland's 16th-Century grandeur to its present ruin, the most grievous was World War II and its aftermath. Cities and towns have been looted and burned. The entire country has been shoved by the Soviet bulldozer some 200 miles westward across Europe. Even now the country still lies on the Red Army lines to Germany; every Polish provincial capital has a Russian garrison which lives off the land. But under the burden, life is rebuilding...
...Nothing. Harry Truman, no political tyro, had apparently made a grievous political blunder. He had asked for the same kind of war which Franklin Roosevelt had fought with Congress ever since the great Court-packing skirmish of 1937. In such a war, a President who stakes everything on public support and fails to win it-in unmistakable terms-runs the risk of increasingly humiliating retreats...
...guilt they seemed to feel not at all. Some students of Japanese history maintain that in ancient and modern Japanese ethics there is no sense of guilt. Sin and catastrophe are in the same category. The war's disastrous end was grievous as earthquakes had been grievous. Defeat polluted but did not necessarily shame; it called, perhaps, for "purification," but not for repentance and atonement...
...other occupiers. But the representatives of the western powers on the whole felt better rather than worse after the first meeting. Marshal Zhukov showed them every courtesy in Berlin, visited (and decorated) General Eisenhower at Frankfurt five days later. Some of the U.S. officials got the impression that a grievous lack of administrative personnel and preparation, rather than a deliberate secretiveness, accounted at least in part for the Soviet reluctance to admit U.S. and British representatives to the Russian area...