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...about the war. But Camus does make clear in them his reasons for joining the Resistance: "There is nothing less excusable than war and the appeal to national hatreds. But once war has come, it is both cowardly and useless to try to stand on one side under the pretext that one is not responsible. It is both impossible and immoral to judge an event from outside. One keeps the right to hold this absurd misfortune in contempt only by remaining inside...
...group, one Erwin Tiebel, merely served as courier for Felfe and Clemens. The spies transmitted their information by microfilm hidden in food cans sent to East Germany, by drops along the Autobahn, and by frequent trips on U.S. Air Force courier flights to Berlin, which they boarded under the pretext of being on Gehlen business. The three got a total of $78,000 from Moscow. For the investment, the Soviets got 15,000 microfilm photographs of West German intelligence documents, 20 spools of tape recordings, numerous verbal and radio reports, including the identity of many West German agents working behind...
...Pretext for Government
Although the OAS does pose a continuing threat to do Gaulle's life, several observers have noted that the assassination danger is a convenient pretext for the government. It allows the regime, they say, to maintain heavily armed forces in the capital, a control measure which under other circumstances would be subject to scathing criticism...
...foreign-owned properties around. Often the biggest banks and businesses belong to foreigners, and the hosts suffer from both the weakness of envy and the need for cash. Last month Burma's government nationalized 14 foreign banks, and this month Nyasaland seized a German-controlled brewery on the pretext that its beer was designed to lull natives out of any fight for independence. Last week in Manhattan, even while seeking U.S. aid, Brazil's Finance Minister San Thiago Dantas reaffirmed his country's intention to nationalize all foreign utilities. The U.S. State Department accepts the likelihood that...