Word: pretexting
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...final step was to be the exaction of President von Hindenburg's resignation, thus automatically causing a Monarchist Chancellor to assume the executive power, after which martial law would be declared on some pretext and an "emergency constitution" proclaimed, setting up a "regency" for the Hohenzollerns...
...With the general strike imminent and the labor unions still trying to bring about an agreement, a sudden change in government policy, which used the Daily Mail strike as a pretext slammed the door in the face of settlement by peaceful negotiation...
...revealed by the disclosure of their secret agreements and dispatches, were three in number. These were the most important features of their more general imperialistic policy. The first was the manipulation of the Balkan situation to satisfy Russia's aims with respect to the Bosphorus, and to furnish a pretext for a general war when they found the time ripe for one. The second of their endeavors was to involve England so thoroughly in their schemes and diplomacy that when the crucial moment came she would be unable to withdraw or to support Germany. In the third place they both...
...popular illusions. England and France both knew that Germany was coming through Belgium, and the English even tried to get the consent of Belgium to the landing of her troops there as soon as the war might break out. Germany's violation of Belgian neutrality was merely a convenient pretext by means of which Viscount Grey could save his face, and make England's participation in the war seem to ensue from entirely chivalric motives. Moreover, Grey had pledged England to support France in the war which they all knew was inevitable before Germany ever invaded Belgium...
...letter of Thomas Slocum and that of Francis Rogers relative to the withdrawal of the Harvard Glee Club from the Intercollegiate Glee Club Contest I add my sincere approval. Properly done and at the proper time, without pretext, it is wholly within the right of each of the component clubs to withdraw from the organization. But to wait till the contest is at hand before signifying such intention can be productive only of disarrangement and of justly unfavorable criticism. The reason given, that the composition selected for uniform competition is "of musical inferiority and real musical worth", strikes my ears...