Word: eyewash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Snapped Lord Lothian, British Ambassador: "Complete eyewash." Said an authoritative source in London: "You can be certain it won't happen again." At first denied by Lieut. Colonel R. Swire, chief censor in Hamilton, who declared, "utter nonsense . . . no armed men were in the vicinity," the story was later admitted in part. An official statement pointed out that a force majeure had to be created to enable Captain Lorber to yield his mail without any question of having failed in his duty as a U. S. mail carrier. This "show of force" was a boatload of armed special constables...