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...tripe that is shoved at them. When the moment of awakening comes they will simply refuse to swallow any more; and then a process of revolutionary disgorging will commence which will create a highly precarious situation for Herr Adolph. The only way of avoiding this situation is to divert the minds of the people by war; and since war forms a cardinal point in the foreign policy of Hitler, it may be assumed that he will not neglect to employ it as a means of relieving pressure at home. The Ministry of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, then, emerges...
Richard Whitney did not have to be told that he was going to Washington in behalf of a lost cause. Nothing could divert the Administration from its determination to put the Stock Exchange into a Federal straitjacket. All President Whitney could hope for in the political battle ahead was to keep that strait-jacket from squeezing the breath of life entirely out of the stock trading business...
...from the effects of eyelash brightener, when the American Medical Association traces dozens of deaths to a supposedly harmless remedy for rheumatism, when drug cures for gallstones are sold at every pharmacy, and it is known that the infirmity can only be cured by operation, it appears time to divert these Borgias to a new table...
...easily seen in the move made by M. Doumergue to transfer interest in the domestic situation in France to the realm of foreign affairs. Doumergue has seized upon the Austrian-German question as the one most likely to arcuse interest in France which would be sufficient to divert public opinion from the Stavisky scandal. For years this has been a time honored method in French politics; unfortunately, it has been generally unsuccessful; in 1830 it came too late to avert the collapse of the monarchy, and in 1840 it merely caused the fall of the government and came near...
...permanent success. Since this is the case, the cause of the Nazis has been considerably strengthened, and if a purely nominal Fascist government is established, it is difficult to see just what the powers can do about it--except to utilize it as a safety valve which may divert the local magnesium-throwers...