Word: cabal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Panic in Vichy. Fright seemed plainest of all among the Vichy cabal of royalists, fascists and opportunists. They had placed their bets on Adolf Hitler as the architect of Europe's future. They had tried at one & the same time to placate Hitler and grab as much of France as possible for themselves. In this bargaining game they had sold out the French people by all manner of internal concessions, by making cargo shipments to the Axis in Libya, admitting German "technicians and importers" to Africa, deporting French workers and Jewish refugees to Germany, libeling Third Republican leaders...
...fact is that Ray, in company with two or three local newspapermen, did do a beautiful job of journalistic sleuthing in locating the Senatorial cabal in a room of the Blackstone Hotel. I stumbled on to them only a few minutes before the meeting broke up and when Ray had the story completely in hand. It definitely was his story, not mine...
...extreme example of the Annapolis clan spirit is the Green Bowlers, a secret fraternity of Annapolis men dominated by the single idea of helping one another up the naval ladder. Composed of top-flight graduates in each class, the cabal of Green Bowlers was started in 1909, has been reported abandoned. Its influence remains...
...week. The number of purged generals was reported to be 100 or more,* and though Hitler had been forced to reinstate the three biggest vons (Bock, Runstedt, Leeb) in Russia to mount his spring offensive, he had gone out of his way to decorate Elite Guard heroes. The Army cabal was quiescent. Score one for Reinhard Heydrich. Himmler took the credit...
Embassy in Mexico City to lead a Spanish Republican army against the Canary Islands. This cabal, Arriba snarled, was conceived "under the bloodless standard of the movies and with puerile disregard of the vigor of free peoples." Not published in Madrid were the prompt denials of General Miaja and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels...