Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the war we "should have cultural, and commercial relationships with each other." Dr. Vila, and, according to him, the South American people, believe that the Administration's policy of the "good neighbor" is one of real friendship and concrete benefit to both nations, rather than being merely a cloak for the imperialistic ambitions by the colossus of the north...
...hurl against the onrushing Germans began to haunt the men of Vichy. Old Papa Petain squirmed. Only 20 miles away, in the almost forgotten village of Riom, a story was unfolded that the world had never heard before. It was an appalling story. If true, it snatched the cloak of guilt from scapegoats facing trial in Riom's Palais de Justice, placed it snugly over the Marshal's own aged shoulders...
...Messieurs, la Cour." In a long-sleeved red robe with a jabot of lace at the throat and a cloak with ermine neck piece, the Chief Justice of the special tribunal, velvety Pierre Caous, took his seat. Flanking him were four other justices, an admiral, an Air Force general, glittering with war decorations. At the order "Introduisez les accuses," the five defendants filed in. First was Jacomet, a humble, whipped-dog expression on his lean face. Next the soft-footed, bearlike hulk of Leon Blum, a peasant's woolen muffler wound around his neck. Third was La Chambre, youngest...
Vichy's cloak of neutrality was wearing too thin to hide much. In London, Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton gave figures showing that Vichy's collaboration with Germany had been military, as well as economic and political. He said that in two months Vichy had sent the German forces in Libya cars, lorries, 5,500 tons of motor fuel...
Hitler snuggled as snugly as he could into his cloak of proletarian fervor. He contrasted himself again & again, the protector of the poor, with plutocratic foes. Lest Germans be disturbed, however, by thoughts that the Russians are also convinced proletarians of long standing, the country was plastered with posters showing German soldiers suffering from "Communistic dirt, filth, lice, disorganization, lack of most essential commodities...