Word: unpreparedness
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> In September 1939, as the Panzers clawed across Poland, Adolf Hitler grandiloquized: "I now do not want to be anything but the first soldier of the German Reich. I, therefore, again put on the uniform which once had been most sacred and dearest to me. I will take it off...
Germany. The Italian collapse caught Hitler's evil wizard Paul Joseph Goebbels unprepared. All last week he gave the German people only the barest factual details while he floundered from one explanation to another. Pessimism was rampant. Wrote the German-controlled Brüsseler Zeitung: "At present we rest...
Storm warnings flew from the War Department last week. If the final figures of June arms production are no better than the preliminary estimates, the U.S. may soon be shocked by news for which it is wholly unprepared: there is a crisis in war production-a crisis rooted in home...
Plenty Bandicoot. Nawnim became Norman, was sent to be educated in the caste-free South, accepted his "cigaret-stain" skin as a legacy from his mother (a Javanese princess, Oscar assured him). He returned to Oscar's farm a trained mechanic, looked like a "Rajah." The girls shouted when...
Industry Wonders. At the last minute, Franklin Roosevelt decided against entrusting the new policy to the War Labor Board or Fanny Perkins' Department of Labor, handed the odious job of enforcement to War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt. Unprepared for the backbreaking job, Paul McNutt was by no means...