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...Blame. Morison makes no bones about fixing the blame: ". . . the United States Navy was woefully unprepared, materially and mentally, for the U-boat blitz on the Atlantic Coast . . . this unpreparedness was largely the Navy's own fault." While ships were going to the bottom, the Army & Navy wrangled for 18 months over control of antisub aircraft, never reached a solution. The reason? Says Morison bluntly: "Conflicting personalities and service ambitions." Meanwhile four Navy destroyer schools were teaching four different methods of coping with U-boats and "the Navy Department laid such stress on the security of communications that they...
Most other great hurricanes-1928's, for example, which killed 1,500 people around Florida's Lake Okeechobee-had caught the U.S. more or less unprepared. This time, the U.S. was as ready as it could expect to get for a hurricane.
"A license to practice medicine in this country," said Dr. Foss, "entitles its holder ... irrespective of his training ... .to attempt any operation irrespective of its magnitude and technical difficulties. . . . The glamor of surgery, the superior position the young doctor believes he will attain . . . are so alluring that it is often...
Last spring, in a directive to all principals, the School Board of Superintendents reasserted the city's mass-promotion policy. Immediately, all 144 faculty members of the Olney High School rose up in protest. "The directive," they declared, "implies that every pupil is to be advanced from grade to...
"We Are Losing Ground." The British note of Feb. 27, 1947 (a day that may live in history as the beginning of a new and more vigorous U.S. policy) did not find Marshall wholly unprepared. From the first he had regarded his mission to Moscow not merely as a diplomatic...