Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last day of the old year a "highly responsible source" talked to Washington correspondents. He banged his white-knuckled fist on the desk and although not a blasphemous man, he swore bitterly. For he was brimming over with indignation that Americans in their ignorance should do anything so tragic...
...costly were his mistakes-and ours -and so strong is the likelihood that we shall run through the same tragic cycle again, that I regard it as a solemn duty to lay aside all personal predilections and present some pertinent if disagreeable truths...
...Woodrow Wilson's 14 points by listing no fewer than 21 "peacemaking blunders" committed by the World War I President. Professor Bailey, author of the most readable modern book on U.S. diplomacy, A Diplomatic History of the American People, scored as "perhaps Wilson's most tragic blunder" his belief "that mankind could attain a kind of international millennium at one bound. He confused the task of making peace with Germany, which was an immediate need, with that of remaking the world, which was the long-range need...
Bailey said these blunders had "resulted in the most far-reaching consequences" and said we were faced with their repetition. Wilson's most tragic blunder, he said, was probably his "assumption (or was it a hope?) that mankind could attain a kind of international millenium at one bound. He confused the task of making peace with Germany, which was an immediate need, with that of remaking the world, which was the long-range need. The resulting treaty failed of both objectives...
Your article on the Air Forces' Redistribution Center (TIME, Nov. 8) was wonderful. It is unfortunate and perhaps tragic, for the sake of both morale and efficiency, that the other arms and services can't do likewise in assigning their members...