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...This draft registration was part of his ‘get tough,’ or ‘seem tough,’ policy, and our feeling at 20, 21, 22 years old, and as a fairly liberal group of editorial writers, was that this was a ruse. It had nothing to do with keeping the country strong. It was absurd. If there was a war with the Soviet Union, it would have been nuclear war and we all would have been dead...
Some in Washington feel that Yurchenko was a KGB plant all along, that his defection in Rome was just a ruse. They say it is nonsense to believe that he was a real defector who decided to go back and face likely death because of a change of heart. Given his apparent access to the names and details of KGB agents in the U.S. and other nations, a former senior CIA counterintelligence official argues, a flood of arrests and expulsions would have followed his debriefings if his defection were legitimate. Instead, the skeptics point out, Yurchenko offered only meager pickings...
...Montagu's 1953 book (later a movie), involved a body that washed up on the coast of Spain outfitted in a Royal Marines uniform and with papers indicating that the next Allied thrust would come in Greece and Sardinia, not Sicily. The German high command fell for the ruse, and the beaches of Sicily were only lightly defended when the Allies landed in July...
...WHEN FRANCE TRIED TO EXERT POLITICAL CONTROL OVER THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK IN 2000, A BRITISH POLITICIAN SAID THAT THE E.U. HAS BEEN SHOWN FOR WHAT IT IS: A RUSE BY THE FRENCH, FOR THE FRENCH. DO YOU THINK THERE'S SOMETHING TO THAT? I don't think the main issue is the attempt to control the European Central Bank. The much bigger issue is the French position on all sides of the political spectrum about fiscal policy and taxation. They want to harmonize taxation. They call the different tax rates [in new member states like the Czech Republic...
...Woman of the Year award—notably not the Actress of the Year award—was originally designed as a ruse to bring an eligible debutante to the blue-blooded club. While that failed, press attention began before anyone accepted the Pudding’s offer. In 1949, The New York Times reported on the club’s failed attempt to recruit Margaret Truman. The next year, the paper printed the Pudding’s 1950 letter begging the pleasure of Sharman Douglas’ company, advising the young socialite that the “well-bred?...