Word: unpreparedness
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The U.S. start in World War I was excruciatingly slow. The nation, living under the delusion that each war was the last, came unprepared, as usual, into another.
In the military sphere, Russia also made a move which may or may not have been aimed for German consumption. General Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov, an expert with tanks and parachutes and one of three boosted to the rank of General of the Army after generals were reinstated last spring, was...
We believe that the preservation of England should be a primary aim of the United States. The nation that is putting up so valiant a fight against the forces of aggression is, if only incidentally, serving as a bulwark of the unprepared western hemisphere against the common enemy. It is...
President Robert Hutchins of the Uni versity of Chicago made a radio speech against the bill. He was convinced that the country was headed for war. And, said he: "We are morally and intellectually unprepared to execute the moral mission to which the President calls us." He saw the duty...
Poet T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot attacked the Church in wasteland accents for letting Christian principle vanish from education. Sir Richard Acland was fiercer: "For over 150 years you have neglected your duty . . . because of sheer funk. . The whole structure of society ... is, from the Christian point of view, rotten...