Word: divertible
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Perhaps to divert attention from General von Stulpnagel's Putsch-&-Jewry show, the Paris weekly L'Appel "exposed" plans for a fantastic "worldwide revolt," predicted Ford and Du Pont millions would back appeasement-loving, ex-Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and several French industrialists and bankers in rigging an early peace. This was to be done by establishing a league of major nations in Europe and Africa to be called Paneurafrica, five leagues of minor nations...
...divert the home folks, the German news agency D.N.B. estimated that the German Armies had occupied 388,185 square miles. This, the estimators said (forgetting the German dictum that geographical advance is not so important as military annihilation), was more than twice the area of old Germany. They failed to add that it was less than one-twentieth of Russia...
...broke out in 1914, Russia was completely unready. Recruits had no rifles, ammunition was short, even such necessities as shoes for soldiers were lacking. But the Russians were persuaded to attack the German rear, and for two years an army that was scarcely an army served to divert German attention from the real job, the Western Front...
Railroad men blasted the Seaway from every side. Their main fear: loss of profitable petroleum, coal and automobile traffic (on the assumption that a new transport medium will divert more traffic than it will generate). Last week an 85-year-old pro-Seaway lobbyist (for Minnesota) named J. Adam Bede, who was a Congressman in 1903-09, remarked: "Aw, I've heard all this before. ... I remember when the railroad people testified that the transcontinental rails would turn to rust if we built the Panama Canal." But like the Panama Canal, the Seaway would cut transportation costs. Proponents have...
...like, and that seem to swallow the objections of interested parties like a century of U.S. history. Yet Americans are also logical, and in 1941 the logical question about such a project is: does it help or hinder defense? Whatever it does to rail traffic, the Seaway job must divert men and materials from the manufacture of planes, guns, ships...