Word: mistakenness
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...Will Russia drive into Germany and raise the Red Flag in Europe? She may. She may because the atrocities committed by the Nazis in Occupied Russia have been so frightful that blood must be paid in blood. ... Or he [Stalin] might want no part of Germany. . . . Unless I am mistaken, what Russia really wants is not concerned with Europe...
Roosevelt would be mistaken to look on Flynn's rebuff as a slap in the face of the Administration. The balance of power which turned the scales against this appointment was in the hands of men who have been staunch supporters of the President in his whole foreign policy...
...Argentine Government deplores the grave error . . . into which the British Foreign Office has fallen. . . . [It] is astonished that the Foreign Office, on the strength of mistaken information, should have expressed itself ... in terms that do not correspond to the friendly relations between the British and Argentine people...
...plea. Everybody knew that it would be better to keep rationing plans secret until they were ready to be enforced, said he. But this program had to be explained to hundreds of thousands of grocers and to 1,500,000 Office of Price Administration volunteers; "partial and mistaken stones" of the plans were bound to get around; "it seemed best to tell the people tonight what is intended...
...that the banks may be able to make the necessary bond purchases, we shall face two difficulties after peace has returned. In the first place, the banks will have immense holdings of Government bonds, and the price of these bonds is likely to fall when the Treasury abandons its mistaken view that interest rates should be held down for Government borrowing; that is, as soon as the Treasury no longer finds it necessary to borrow. We shall then be confronted with the problem of preventing wholesale failures among the banks...