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Counting in private indebtedness, losses and gains canceled out. Of course, he had meant to include private indebtedness. If papers had not made that clear, it was the reporters' fault. Mr. Currie's memo proved it. Remembering how the President had wandered from the memo, the reporters thought but did not say: "That's right, you're wrong...
Obvious starting points for all four: 1) that war is international anarchy caused by unbridled nationalism; 2) that "international morality" has disappeared; 3) that all nations are partly at fault for World War II; 4) that a way out can be 'found short of violent revolution; 5) that the Allied war aims, as so far stated-to crush Hitler and protect the small countries-are considerably less than clear or inspiring. But the authors of these books find plenty of room for argument...
...Fault & Default. Someone besides pranksters or intruding Reds had indeed played a trick on John Lewis. Someone apparently had convinced him that there is in the diffuse U. S. a solid, national, manageable Labor Vote...
Sorry you disliked my life of an average New Yorker (TIME, Dec. 18). . . . A cousinly misunderstanding is no fault of the average journalist. The average editor who employs Englishmen to write about you and Americans to write about the United Kingdom is not really to blame. The poor fish is the average reader who on both coasts of the Atlantic selects the worm to taste before he swallows the hook. Even you, mighty angler that you are, must not tell them the bait is phony; otherwise, we shall all go short on Fridays...
...fault lies, unprejudiced sources claim with the choosing of the site of the traditional sent of "Harvard Indifference." All the region south of Eliot and South Streets--the area now occupied by Eliot House and Memorial Drive used to be a low-lying swampland on which "squatters" lived in cabins, whose disappearance into the swamp in the early days of Cambridge provided one of the chief sources of excitement for local witch-hunters...