Word: blackmailed
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...France, Pierre Laval had just publicly declared what everyone knew: "I hope for German victory." He did not publicly admit, as he has privately, that it was to save his own oily skin, but piously attributed his hope to fear of "universal Bolshevism." Meanwhile Laval was practicing vicious blackmail on the French working people...
...them. Assuming power as billeting officer, he visited them upon another British quintessence: the middleaged, music-loving, rock-gardening, genteel, post-Pre-Raphaelite people who made up the Garden Party Only list in sister Barbara's address book. On these Basil cleaned up in one heart-squeezing blackmail after another, for they were willing to pay with their own souls for the Connollies' removal. When he decided to return to London, he sold out his business, plus invaluable good will, to a billeting officer with as sharp an eye for trade...
...WRUL's total activity, which includes programs in over 20 languages. Explaining the significance of these French broadcasts, Tyler stated they are playing a vital role in giving moral support to the French people, which they need, especially since the rise of Laval, to resist the German propaganda and blackmail by which the Nazis have been trying to force French collaboration. In a broadcast last Sunday, for example. Tyler exhorted the French people to ignore the "Gaulieter Laval" and assured them that the Allies were continuing to carry the war to the enemy...
From Hungary the German General Staff ordered a new army of some 400,000 men. Hungary's war lords flatly told Premier Laszlo Bardossy that this was impossible. Then the Wilhelmstrasse tried to blackmail Hungary by threatening to "rectify" the 1940 Vienna award which returned Transylvania to Hungary. Having struggled most of his public life to regain Hungary's lost territories, Dr. Bardossy tried to follow the example of his predecessor, Count Paul Teleki, who, when pressed too hard by the Germans, put a bullet through his head. (Dr. Bardossy was prevented...
...MIGHTY BLOCKHEAD-Frank Gruber -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Book pitchmen Cragg and Fletcher are plunged into a double murder and blackmail case that involves civil war in a New York comic-strip factory, slugfests in Iowa roadhouses and gangster hideaways. The amateur detective duo at their slangiest, most exuberant...