Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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...