Word: blunderers
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Daniels was imploring the House Committee on Naval Affairs to beware the "naval holiday." He thinks our entrance into the League is uncertain, yet outside of it we are beset with dangers. We must have the largest navy, and to consider a five-year check or construction is a "blunder worse than a crime." The best thing to do is to vote the necessary $600,000,000 and trust in Mr. Daniels...
...Gerry reservation was a prize blunder, a true masterpiece of diplomacy. The friendship of an ancient and powerful ally, and the reputation of the United States as a nation with at least sensible ideas of international relations; these are cast aside...
...friendship of France has already been alienated by an atrocious blunder by the President. We must now lose the amity of Great Britain by a gross interference in her private affairs. The ancient rules of international relationship require that nations, at least officially, attend to their own affairs, and allow their sister nations to do likewise. Many Englishmen feel that we have worked great injustice in our negro problem. How would we welcome British interference on this subject...
...crudity of this blunder must be twice as obvious to the learned gentlemen who committed it: Why did they do it? Sympathy for Ireland may have prejudiced some Senators, but for the most part we fear there was another motive. Pressure from constituencies of Irish complexion must have drive these men to lose sight of national interests in personal ones. C. E. WORKS 1L. V. E. MACY, JR. '20. C. R. STEEDMAN...
...lead one to believe that for commercial reasons the Harvard Glee Club had acquired his services in order to give a necessary publicity. In view of the fact that Kreisler has been refused entrance on the concert stage in so many cities throughout the country, I consider it a blunder on the part of the Glee Club to enter voluntarily and consciously into an affair that is bound to lead to adverse comment. And personally if we must go to those that represent the enemies we so lately fought, for publicity or any commercial essential, I think it is time...