Word: unpreparedness
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"Has the Soviet Union a plan? Yes-no doubt, several plans. . . . If we enter Europe without a plan, while the Soviets have a clear one in reserve, we stand to become caught in situations for which we are completely unprepared."
The Fear. The Japanese are obsessed by the fear of air raids, knowing that U.S. planes will strike some day and that they are unprepared. Japanese correspondents in Berlin grimly report the German agony, to prepare their readers for the worst. (Last week German correspondents reported that 15 districts of...
This is an economic fact of first importance in understanding the American scene. For one thing it means that the U.S. will not go flabbily unprepared into the possible postwar depression, but on a lean, hard-muscled basis. This debt reduction, when added to the $6 billion of installment credit...
The Seabees, the Navy's construction battalions, were two years old this week. The birthday pointed up two facts: how unprepared the Navy was to fight a war in the first days of 1942; how versatile the Navy has become in two years of war. In 24 months this...
"We were unprepared mentally and physically for Pearl Harbor and now we are being left similarly unprepared for what will come after the war."