Word: unpreparedness
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Pierre Laval spent his last days in sackcloth in the death row of the Fresnes prison. He wrote farewell letters to his family, his lawyers. He chain-smoked. His grieving wife cried that the people who "got France into the war so unprepared" now wanted to silence him with death...
The G.I.s, ill-prepared for the occupation at any stage, were totally unprepared for this. Newcomers, replacing the combat veterans, lacked even the stimulus of a dimming anger. Most of the officers who were supposed to help them understand often needed more help than the G.I.s did.
Labor talked tough to a Congress that had shown signs of getting tough toward labor. To ease the impact of peacetime conflicts, hoping to forestall a wave of labor strife, the Administration moved urgently. But the hard fact was that sudden peace had caught the Government unprepared; it was not...
The Unprepared. It had long been plain that labor, freed of its wartime no-strike pledge, had also cut loose from the Little Steel formula, was ready to move swiftly and decisively to keep its wartime wage rate. It was also plain that Washington was completely unprepared to meet the...
There had been warnings of labor troubles. But last week's explosion caught Washington unprepared. Even as Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach worked over plans for a labor-management get-together, war burst out.