Word: pretexting
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Even before the outbreak of war last September, a steady stream of circulars came to the press from Sweden's nervous Government, begging publishers not to print stories that Germany might choose to consider un-neutral and use as a pretext for aggression. Most newsmen complied by restraining themselves: persecution of the Jews in Poland and Austria was soft-pedaled, concentration camps were ignored. For at least two years no cartoon of Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, or any other Nazi bigwig has appeared in a Swedish paper...
...town of Cerewice women refugees underwent "very indecent gynecological examinations under pretext of finding hidden money...
...Britain and got around to discouraging Germans from traveling on Japanese ships. As if deliberately trying to remove the last vestige of consistency, a Japanese cruiser stopped a British coastal steamer, asked her captain if he had heard of the Asama incident, detained him 15 hours on no other pretext than that...
...replied that Russia's complaints were based on inaccurate information. Sweden was tougher: "The Swedish people cherish ardent sympathy for Finland. . . . In the opinion of the Swedish Government neither its position as regards the press nor its actions in any other demand provides the Soviet Union with a pretext for accusations against Sweden...
Japan cannot exert pressure on Western Powers in the South Seas until they stop pressing her in North China. This week the British delighted Japan by announcing imminent withdrawal of British troops from North China, on the flimsy pretext that they are needed in Europe. The British force, which has been a whole lot of cold water on the hot Japanese garrison at Tientsin, will be only a tiny drop in the B. E. F. bucket...