Word: blackmailers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough; all its breeze seems to come from an electric fan. It has that terrible noisiness which is the bane of too-innocent merriment. Refreshing is the still, small voice of Janie's baby sister Elsbeth (Clare Foley), who at seven is a past mistress of espionage and blackmail. Elsbeth is funny. The rest is formula...
...call for civil disobedience was a "stab in the back" was widely accepted. Forgotten apparently was the famed Zinovieff letter of 1924, which swung an election through public misunderstanding. The British were hard pressed on many fronts, had suffered too many defeats and disappointments to have sympathy for illogical "blackmail...
...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...