Word: divertible
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Such a pact would presumably: 1) enable the U.S. to fight in the Atlantic without fear of attack by Japan; 2) enable Japan to pursue her adventures in the Pacific without fear of attack by the U.S. Or it might be a cunning Axis plot to divert U.S. attention away from the Orient...
...Louis, choleric Neville Miller, Louisville chum of quiet Mark Ethridge, and now $40,000-a-year president of the N.A.B., blasted the monopoly report. Snapped Fly: "These men, to divert attention from the fact of monopolistic control in their hands, conjure up insistently the bogey man of Government operation." Retorted Miller: "It may be that those who think Government operation is essential are conjuring up the bogey man of monopoly...
Former Ambassador Castle asserted that: "Britain is the main issue today; Japan is only a side issue. The United States would be very foolish if it allows German propaganda to divert it from the main issue...
...dictator himself, he put his country in the hands of Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, ousted him too late to divert his people's resentment from himself and his office. When the Republicans sent him into exile in 1931 he drove his own car to Cartagena, jauntily boarded a cruiser. His exile changed nothing. He was merely a king on his travels in France, Austria, Switzerland, Italy. Almost daily, long dispatches came to him from Spain. He studied them, grew encyclopedic on Spanish affairs, awaited confidently his restoration as a constitutional monarch...
...away as Mexico the scare was on. Germans in Mexico City talked about the coming assault on Britain with gas, bombers, gliders, submarines and everything but poisoned arrows. At the same time the Fifth Column in Mexico got ready to kick up trouble to divert the U. S. the minute the big push started...