Word: divertible
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...help being incensed to cold fury by the hypocrisy of the Lindberghs, the Nyes, the front groups who have attempted to discourage our rearmament by whatever means, and who now seek to divert attention from ourselves by criticizing our alleged unpreparedness...
...will only be possible through full cooperation among all the nations opposing Hitler. The Committee, nevertheless, declares we must fight alone. British forces in Singapore and Hong-Kong, and British war-vessels in the Pacific are fighting alongside us, while British sea-power in the Atlantic enables us to divert more of our fleet for the Asiatic struggle, yet the Committee accuses America of "neglecting her defenses by pursuing an irresponsible and sentimental pro-British policy...
...obvious tactic: to pinch first. Last week the U.S. was pressing in the Atlantic, holding its previously applied pressure in the Pacific. There was a suspicion that Japan's bellicose gesture was the result of a demand by Adolf Hitler, not only to attack Siberia, but to divert the U.S. from its warlike moves in the Atlantic...
...hard way-straight through the Mediterranean. This was apparently the first load of equipment for Russia. Its passage was marked by the usual flurry of Italian air attacks on the convoy itself, by an unusual flurry of British air attacks on Italian and Sicilian cities-an apparent effort to divert the Italian Air Force from attacking the convoy...
...arms to Vladivostok were rebuffed by both the U.S. and Soviet Governments. Japan's spokesmen talked repeatedly of the threat of Allied "encirclement" of the Empire. As proof that the threat was not taken lightly Japan, instead of prosecuting the southern drive that the Axis hoped would divert U.S. attention from Europe, was actually in anxious negotiation with...