Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the U.S. has no reason to conceal figures on its foreign garrisons, U.S. opposition to partial disclosure may have been a blunder. Scarcely had the Security Council rumpus subsided when the figures were revealed by the New York Times's military analyst Hanson W. Baldwin. One interesting point: in China (wildly decried by Russia and her friends as a prey to U.S. imperialism), the U.S. maintains only 29,000 troops, while Russia has 75,000 in China's northern provinces...
...Senators Tom Connally and Arthur Vandenberg talked and there was no mistaking their indignation. Vandenberg, sick of trying to demonstrate national unity in foreign policy when the Administration was so disunited, was thoroughly fed up. Editorialized the Baltimore Sun: "It will be almost impossible to repair [the Wallace-Truman blunder] unless these men show almost superhuman forbearance and stand by the stricken ship of nonpartisan policy." Connally and Vandenberg stood...
Said the Laborite Daily Herald (in a front-page headline): WALLACE SPEECH JUST A BLUNDER. It suggested that Secretary Wallace acquaint himself with the British withdrawal from India...
World War II had caught the U.S. repeating many a blunder and folly from World War I. This week, in a summing-up report, the Senate's Mead Committee pointed to the worst of them, hoped they would not be repeated again...
...construction in "disregard of repeated warnings by experts." Then it laid into Fleet Admiral Ernest King. He had "used the high office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the claim of military secrecy for the purpose of preventing the Congress and the people from discontinuing a costly blunder by a fellow officer who was unwilling to admit his mistake...