Word: pretext
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan cannot exert pressure on Western Powers in the South Seas until they stop pressing her in North China. This week the British delighted Japan by announcing imminent withdrawal of British troops from North China, on the flimsy pretext that they are needed in Europe. The British force, which has been a whole lot of cold water on the hot Japanese garrison at Tientsin, will be only a tiny drop in the B. E. F. bucket...
...element of truth in your criticisms of the Peace Poll. Our tacit assumptions may have gone too far in certain cases. The notion that war profiteers do play a part in drawing the country into war, and the idea that a war crisis may be used as a pretext for legislation destructive of civil liberties and labor and social security standards, while they seem obvious to us, are apparently doubtful for many students. Similarly, we may have been over-eager to link up points which we consider connected but which in the popular mind are dissociated. Objection to connecting...
...pretext whatsoever...
...Meanwhile, Dictator Stalin suddenly brought down Russia's fist upon Estonia. This prosperous little Baltic state flanks the sea approach to Leningrad, where the Red Navy is frozen up tight at least three months of each year, and its capital, Tallinn, is an ice-free port. On the pretext that the Estonian Government recently "allowed" an interned Polish submarine to chug out of Tallinn and become a commerce raider-actually it shot its way out, fired upon by harbor batteries (TIME, Oct. 2)-the Moscow press and radio have been violently attacking Estonia as "hostile" to Russia. These attacks...
...July night in 1937 when the alleged murder of a Japanese sentry at Peking's Marco Polo bridge (he turned up within a day, A.W.O.L.) furnished a pretext for the invasion of China, Japan's trade with the U. S., its best customer and its best market, started downhill...