Word: devious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Events soon outpaced the 90 Navy bombers, the 173 Army attack planes which were assembled for dispatch to Canada and thence to Europe. Mr. Roosevelt had had to go through the devious farce of "trading in" the planes. 600,000 World War I rifles, 68.000 old machine guns, 875 French and British 755, other munitions to private manufacturers, who in turn sold them to the Allies...
...mean much of anything. He was for rearming the U. S., against letting the U. S. Government arm the desperate Allies ("I would have no objection, but we should be careful not to ... involve this country in war"). What troubled him almost as much was the devious means which Franklin Roosevelt had to adopt: to trade in Army-Navy planes and guns to manufacturers, who passed them on to the English and French...
Impressive indeed was the way in which devious Benito Mussolini meanwhile made himself the patron saint of a Balkan peace bloc. Hungary, which is geographically in Germany's sphere, swung back politically into Italy's (where she was before Anschluss). Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky was received by Count Ciano in Venice and last week Premier Count Paul Teleki was made to feel very happy in Rome-even though Benito Mussolini told him Hungary must not dream of getting Transylvania from Rumania until war's end. An Italian economic mission showed up in every Southeastern European country...
...between politics and mobs was in practice intricate and devious, but Raymond & Thompson give a useful diagram of the mechanism. Founded on Tammany use of hoodlums and floaters to get out the vote and win elections in the 23 assembly districts of Manhattan, the mechanism involved Tammany gratitude to these instruments. Tammany gratitude was partially expressed through mayor-appointed magistrates-a tie-up very shocking to good people when the Seabury investigation brought it out in 1930-31. Judge Seabury's recommendation-that the appointment of magistrates be removed from politics-has never been followed...
...chapter to Göring, who once told him that the trouble with the British was that they had become "debrutalized." Sir Nevile admired Göring's loyalty to Hitler, his administrative ability, his physical courage, his sportsmanship, above all his frankness, which does not stoop to devious deceits. He credits Göring with intervening decisively for peace in 1938, thinks he would have done so in 1939 if he had dared risk Hitler's displeasure. Summing him up, Sir Nevile found him "a typical and brutal buccaneer; but he had certain attractive qualities...