Word: pretexting
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...lead to devaluation, is the recent law forcing the French to divulge to their Government whatever funds they have abroad. This they passionately hate, for to the logical French mind it suggests that, once the Government knows what foreign funds its citizens have, the day will come when, under pretext of "emergency," these will be forcibly obtained pour la patrie...
...eastern coast of Shantung peninsula in northeast China is the city of Tsingtao. There last week 36,000 Chinese workers were locked out of nine Japanese-owned textile mills. Immediately 800 fully-armed Japanese marines landed at Tsingtao on the pretext of "safeguarding Japan's interests." rampaged all over the seaport, arrested three prominent Chinese, raided the Chinese Nationalist Party headquarters, and seized documents...
...adopting a uniform policy of returning blue books to those that ask for them, the University should not allow the Bible and Shakspere papers to escape on the pretext that they form part of the divisional examinations. Coming two years before the final comprehensives, and given all too little advance publicity by the Division in charge, these tests are popularly regarded as the first antidote to a pleasant period of vacation. Yet occasionally a student devotes ample time in preparing for them, and to deny such a man the fruits of labor that will help in working for divisionals...
Since Franklin Roosevelt accepted renomination at Philadelphia two months ago, he has studiously refrained from all political activity. Nevertheless, he was at pains to give White House correspondents the slip one afternoon last week and, on pretext of visiting his ailing Secretary of War at Walter Reed Hospital, motored 20 miles into Maryland to Oxon Hill Manor, country house of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles. There the President conferred with some 30 local Democrats, including Maryland's Senator Radcliffe, Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, National Committeeman Howard Bruce. When the Baltimore Sun discovered this privy excursion, newshawks rushed...
Neutral observers could only conclude that the Japanese Government, needing a pretext for further armed encroachment upon China, had subsidized and provided ammunition for General Pai. The ruse continued to work to perfection. General Pai's blasts against Japan touched off all over South China precisely the sort of Chinese popular unrest and baiting of local Japanese needed by spunky little Japanese Premier Koki Hirota as an excuse to intervene. By his orders a Japanese cruiser and six destroyers soon slithered into Amoy "to protect Japanese lives and property." Added a Japanese destroyer officer, "We are ready to proceed...