Word: mistakenness
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...hope of keeping Hatoyama safe in Tokyo. As he got his weekly haircut, the Premier remarked cheerfully: "I probably will need only one more before going to Moscow." But if Hatoyama was counting on prolonging his political life by achieving a settlement with Russia, he seemed to be sadly mistaken. By last week nearly half of the Liberal Democratic members of Parliament had joined an organization called the Jikyokn Kondankai ("Council for Deliberating the Current Political Situation"). The Kondankai's basic purpose: to oust Hatoyama from the premiership...
...believe," he said, "that government should be a partner with business and with labor and not a partisan to encourage one to fight with the other . . . We believe in human welfare but not the welfare state. We seek social gains, but we reject completely the well-intentioned but mistaken theories of those who would socialize, federalize or nationalize basic American institutions...
...urging of 40 leading citizens of Ahmedabad, who assured him that the people would now listen with respect, Desai took his first nourishment in eight days-a glass of orange juice-and once again tried to make his speech. The leading citizens turned out to be sadly mistaken. While Desai spoke, a surly, milling crowd of 1,000 Gujaratis threw stones at the dais and interrupted him repeatedly with cries of "Long Live Gujarat." Before the day was over. Ahmedabad's police had twice opened fire on frenzied mobs, and at least a hundred were injured...
...impossible not to feel some degree of sympathy with a man (however mistaken TIME may believe him to be) who seeks the deliverance of his country from a foreign yoke...
...drove across to Calais. They motored over the Simplon Pass into Italy, crossed Yugoslavia and Greece. Outside Zagreb they had their only flat. On through Ankara, across high, arid plateaus, down through the Taurus Mountains and across Syria the Half Safe chugged along. In Iran the craft was mistaken for a Russian tank and got a military escort to the Pakistan border. At twilight in Teheran the Half Safe smacked into a traffic island but suffered only a slight loss of paint...