Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...enemy and his friends, before an armed offensive; 2) to prepare the ground for a real peace offer. The rumors of the past few weeks might be for either. There have always been important groups in both Britain and Germany, in both China and Japan, that felt war was stupid and needless. Weeks ago the Rome-Berlin Axis was supposed to be trying to get the Vatican to propose peace on the grounds that Germany could not conquer the British Isles and Britain could not conquer Europe. Hitler's travels of the last fortnight suggested that he might...
...National Committee for its approval prior to its issuance." Neither he nor Charles Michelson had known a thing about it, Mr. Flynn maintained. Said he: "I am chagrined to think that some reckless individual has done such a disservice to our great President and Party as to issue this stupid document...
Charges of leftish sabotage are made by André Maurois (Tragedy in France), famed author of Ariel and Byron. Like Hambro, Maurois insists that the "actual traitors . . . were not at all numerous. . . ." He gives four reasons for the debacle: 1) stupid industrial mobilization which permitted irreplaceable skilled workers to be drafted, so that Renault (tanks and trucks) was reduced from 30,000 workers to some 7,000; 2) engineers and financiers thought World War II was World War I, built factories which could not turn out essential weapons until 1941 or '42; 3) strategy was planned...
...excellent health; I expect that I shall be called if the selective service act is passed. I do not object, although I have only contempt for my stupid and inept elders who have let matters come to such a pass...
Many a soldier stays publicly mum because he believes laymen too stupid to comprehend the complex art of war. Many a layman believes that soldiers hang on to strategic traditions as a fan dancer does her fan, talk little because they think little and have little...