Word: pretexts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking but are still determined to be correct, are disturbed by the rumblings to the north. They fear that if the Reds rout the tribesmen, the Khambas might seek refuge in India or the buffer states of Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan between India and China, providing China with a pretext for extending the fighting beyond Tibet into areas that Peking already claims as Chinese. Or, if the revolt spreads to include other Tibetans, the Reds might be driven to pouring in troops to put down the uprising, and force through the Communization of Tibet...
...which enjoys wide currency is the argument that a divided Germany threatens us with World War III. Such reasoning, I think, overlooks the basic source of tension in the world. World Communism, and world Communism alone threatens us today with world war. Germany can be no more than a pretext for war. If war comes this year-God forbid-over the Berlin crisis, it will come as a deliberate, calculated stratagem of Red aggression. Berlin is just another phase of their long-term plan to subjugate the free world. The Berlin question is just a pawn in their hands...
There has, however, been no faltering on Western determination that Berlin must not become a "free" city. Such a situation would be the prelude to a communist controlled Berlin, for under almost any pretext--perhaps disorders caused by their own agents--the Soviet-assisted East Germans could sieze control entirely. But while the West's resistance to the free-city proposal deserves commendation, its failure to suggest alternate schemes is unfortunate for Germany...
...Gray Plan. Before it or any harsher program could be put into effect, a change was required in one section of the Virginia constitution that prohibited the "appropriation of public funds" for "any school or institution of learning not owned or exclusively controlled by the state." On the pretext of support for the Gray Plan with its fatal flaw, the Byrd organization fought hard for a constitutional amendment. Leading the way was Attorney General Lindsay Almond, a stem-winding stump orator, who thundered at Appomattox that defeat of the amendment would "engulf us in the blackness of indescribable chaos...
Verdict cannot afford star salaries, but many big-name actors ad-lib happily without riches, become convinced of the "truth" that they are relating. Last week Betsy von Furstenberg was on trial for shooting her "husband" on the pretext that she mistook him for a prowler. The prosecuting attorney, in real life Manhattan's Seventh District Assemblyman Daniel Kelly, had built up a damaging case against her. "It all looks very black for us, but wait until I take the stand!" she cried. Verdict's lawyers get just as engaged, lose their tempers in "court," on one occasion...