Word: errors
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Archibald Sinclair, Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton and old David Lloyd George. His Wellsian appeal to Chamberlain and followers: "Let us not recriminate. It is just because I believe that you are honorable and patriotic men that I implore you to have the magnanimity to acknowledge the error of your ways to make this sacrifice to our national duty and withdraw into positions where you can do no further harm...
...special delivery or airmail after each program. When one of McKay's men goes way off in his score, McKay writes or phones to inquire whether a hangover or domestic trouble has got him down. Almost invariably the man admits one difficulty or the other. To McKay each error is known...
Until the U. S. has a numerically superior fleet of capital ships, such as the new Iowa class under construction, a naval war with Japan is out of the question because of the distance consideration. Which brings me to your first error, your horrible selection of John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard as an example. Your position is that Jones, without a naval base, brought the war to the British Coast and that therefore the distance viewpoint is not 100% accurate. The plain fact is that John Paul Jones operated out of a French base, Brest. France was then...
...only for those in power." But he contradicted himself by continuing to write his mind about air power. On the day his resignation was disclosed, he wrote: "Can't this gang in Washington devise one single diversion from the death march of Europe? Must we imitate every fatal error to pay the same costly price in blood...
...Foreign Minister charged: England had provided only slight military aid to France, thinking selfishly solely of the defense of the British Isles, and must therefore shoulder the blame for "the loss of the war"; France had mobilized 3,000,000 men, England only 200,000; the great strategic error of the campaign occurred when at England's insistence the French Army left its trenches to rush into the Lowlands to the fatal battle of the Meuse; General Weygand had asked the British to strike southward to help close the Artois gap, but after dallying for two days, the British...