Word: unwisdom
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...views of Secretary Kellogg that last week British editors began to warn British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain not to let himself be outsmarted by Dr. Stresemann in securing the goodwill of the U. S. Sir Austen, obviously embarrassed, soon made an unfortunate public allusion at Birmingham to the "unwisdom of sacrificing old friends to gain new ones." Thereupon he was heavily taken to task by the Olympian London Times, which usually supports him but declared last week: "The French position is specifically and narrowly French. . . . British opinion in this country and the Dominions is very strongly in favor...
...mother had seen the unwisdom of their marrying. But she was a gunmetal woman. She withered everything she touched with destructive analysis, consumed people's illusions with acid irony. After 50 years, her search for life had grown fierce, into a crusade to deny life-nihilism...
...Moscow, M. Rykov, President of the Council of Commissars, said: "There are only two possible explanations of the incident-either the Prussian State Police acted clumsily, without authority of the German Government, or the latter has deliberately shown the utmost unwisdom in committing a breach of the friendly and neighborly relations between Russia and Germany...
...Federal Council of Churches and the National Committee on American-Japanese Relations protested against the unwisdom of the bill. Said the latter...
...Soviet Revolution, and that to date their policy towards Russia has been anything but a success. Yet is it possible to visit wholesale execration upon them as does Professor Ross? Many facts must yet be brought to light before any attempt at conclusive judgment as to the wisdom or unwisdom of their policy can be fairly made...