Word: blame
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Leadership Decried. The Eisenhower Republicans were hurting badly from the budget flap, and they made no secret of the fact that they thought Ike's lack of leadership was to blame. Not only had Democrats and Old Guard Republicans gained strength from the general confusion (headlined the New Rochelle.N.Y. Standard-Star: GOP TELLS IKE TO GO JUMP IN BUDGET LAKE), but Ikemen had nothing of their own to cling to. Reasons: 1) in order to make speeches defending the budget, an Eisenhower Republican had to accept the President's word that it was sound; 2) every time...
...Praise & Blame. Some Ikemen were heartened at week's end by the show of fight in his telephoned address to a seven-state gathering of Midwestern Republican leaders in Cincinnati. For the first time he blamed Democratic control of Congress, for lagging performance on such measures as federal school construction and civil rights. Republicans must win control of Congress, said he, "for it is clear that political responsibility can be definitely fixed only when one party controls both the legislative and executive branches of our Government...
...obvious cause of this discontent was the growing economic crisis (TIME, May 13), which has forced the ever-hungry Chinese masses to pull their belts in yet another notch. Mao, however, chose to blame it on the fact that the Chinese Communist Party, more than 60% of whose 12 million members have come in since the Reds came to power, has grown fat and arrogant in office. The remedy, he announced sternly, was for bureaucrats to stop ignoring his year-old slogan, "Let all flowers bloom together, let rival schools of thought contend." Bureaucrats should get out and mix with...
Things have to be done, and General Eisenhower's leisurely government marks a major recline. The Administration is producing neither domestic legislation nor foreign policy, and the blame is Eisenhower...
Faithful to the dogma of his masters, Stalin refused to recognize that prostitution flourished in the Soviet Union (he, says a recent Communist commentator, "professed the famous principle that if the facts do not conform to the thesis, it is the facts and not the thesis that are to blame-and woe to those who point out the facts"). When caught, Soviet prostitutes are sometimes sent to prison camps, but no laws or regulations exist under which the embarrassing problem can be rationally dealt with. Said Trud last February: "Are these women not breaking a basic law of Socialism...