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...country "unite and drive the British out," and asked Gandhi to write him a letter. The Raj, Jinnah said, would not dare to stop such a message. The Raj did dare. Jinnah commented: "The letter of Mr. Gandhi can only be construed as a move on his part to embroil the Moslem League in a clash with the British...
...They have been watching out for some time. Last fortnight they published their observations in War Propaganda and the United States, a slickly written, epigrammatic, rather loosely organized book, in which the authors, with a great show of objectivity, attempt to expose the efforts of European propagandists to embroil the U. S. in World Wars I & II. It was sure to be read with interest by anxious Americans, startled by the Allied debacle, fearful of the future, above all fearful of being led by their noses...
...They [the Jews] ... are using their not inconsiderable influence in the Press and in Parliament to embroil us with Germany." Thus wrote the Very Rev. William Ralph ("The Gloomy Dean") Inge, retired dean of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, in the Church of England Newspaper. When the fuming British press demanded proofs, the lemoncholy divine admitted: "I have no direct knowledge...
...having political influence, was merely cashiered. This year Japan's need of trained officers in China put him back in uniform, and it would be strictly in character for Colonel Hashimoto and his fanatical clique to think the best thing they could do for Japan would be to embroil her in war with the U. S. and other "Foreign Dogs...
Ominous predictions of a major conflict which will embroil all nations of Europe in the near future and a strong plea for American cooperation in world affairs were made in an interview by Harold J. Laski, Professor of Political Science in the University of London...