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...production of 2,600 tanks, those tanks go into production without benefit of Chrysler's criticism as to how, as automotive vehicles, they could be improved. The result is an engine of war that, at the very start of its production, is already militarily obsolete; the fault lies equally with the Army and with Chrysler...
That Syria was a rather jumboesque campaign was hardly General Jumbo Wilson's fault. He had to tread warily lest he inflame Arab sensibilities or drive Vichy further into the arms of the Axis. The Allies' hope that large-scale deserticras and native uprisings would quickly crack General Dentz's defense did not materialize. They had not reckoned that his seasoned regulars would fight no matter who gave the orders. On the British and Free French they had inflicted nearly 1,500 casualties...
Iceland is now nearly treeless. This is not entirely the climate's fault: its coasts, washed by the Gulf Stream, are warmer than the high country of Colorado, and its capital, Reykjavik, has about the same mean annual temperature as New York City. But while the island was a subject of various European nations during the last 1,100 years, its timber was exploited until its hills lay rock-naked as its lava wastes. New forests never grew because, in winter, shepherds would turn out their hungry flocks, which gnawed groves of saplings, preventing the regrowth of natural forests...
...favorite new rule-compulsory competitive bidding for utility securities -flunked its first test last week. But it was not the rule's fault. Next day it got another test, passed with flying colors...
...Some people believe the Chief Executive of China came to Japan to find fault with this country or to make some special request, but there is no such impure idea in his mind. He desires to come in contact with the national policy of this country, in which the ruler and the ruled are one, and to purify his own convictions...