Word: pretexting
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...going to allow the progress that has been made thus far to be nullified by interests which are opposing me on any such silly pretext as that my administration has been irascible and intemperate...
Meanwhile Manchukuan troops under Japanese officers swooped out along the lines of C. E. R., arresting 46 station agents and engineers. They were taken to Harbin and jailed on the pretext that a plot had been discovered to assassinate hollow-eyed Emperor Kang Teh. According to the Japanese, bandit raids on C. E. R. have been financed by Soviet agents from the Red Army base at Khabarovsk. Finally last week the Imperial Japanese Army propaganda bureau in Tokyo issued what Russians interpreted as a threat that Japan means eventually to seize C. E. R. without paying Moscow so much...
...Pretext for the seizure was an ultimatum, by President Mendieta to Cuban Telephone demanding that it re-employ certain strikers, including men who had committed acts of sabotage last spring. Loyal employes were subjected to weeks of terrorist intimidation. Several had their houses bombed. Last week they manifestoed: "We will not work with strikers who have tried to murder us." But President Mendieta, convinced that he was posing as the Friend of the Masses, pushed on with his ultimatum which was flatly rejected by U. S. General Manager Henry C. Hart of Cuban Telephone...
...Generalissimo Chiang, potent chiefly in Central China, despaired of re-establishing its authority in the South. Last week the great haggle ended in a joyous announcement by Nanking Government officials. They had paid Mr. Hu some $200,000, they said, and he has agreed to leave China under pretext of "a detailed inspection tour of European and other countries...
Hearst jingoists stumping for war under the pretext of preparedness are at fault from the beginning because an outstanding lesson of the World War was that preparedness is not a factor that operates to preserve peace but rather one to foment and encourage war. The real lesson to be derived from gruesome war pictures is a condemnation of militarism and its pseudonym "pre-paredness." Your article, a frank statement of facts, does well in exposing this perversion of the facts...