Word: scapegoat
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...Government declaration that "British factories are filled to capacity with orders!" After hours of acrimonious debate, the Cabinet won a vote of confidence by only 299-to-131, and it was clear that Swinton would have to be permitted to resign, as planned by Tactician Chamberlain, to provide a scapegoat for the unpopular "American purchases...
...Anne, Md., was not a bit flustered last week by the guinea pigs' criticisms of Lincoln School. He was pleased "that our friends do not hesitate to tell us about our worst faults." And Alumnus-Teacher Tom Prideaux explained: "Progressive teaching is popularly suspect. It is a convenient scapegoat. Further, many students in new schools like Lincoln are recruited from families with a talent for criticism. They have rebellion in their bones...
...modifications of the original plans they had "approved." Since well before last Christmas, driving, dictatorial Air Secretary Lord Swinton had been the target of assertions in the largest British papers that he must and would resign, and a suitable occasion would certainly be to offer Swinton as a scapegoat for "unpopular American purchases." The Viscount has been a fixture in Conservative cabinets off & on for 15 years, his friends were confident last week that the Prime Minister will not ease him out, and Swinton is stoutly defended by the leading journal of British sky-fighters, The Aeroplane. This frankly...
Pundit Walter Lippmann opined: "I should have no doubt myself that the President's offer is sincere. For while he and certain of his supporters might feel at a loss during election time if they did not have the utilities for a scapegoat, Mr. Roosevelt's offer is in entire accord with his most practical political necessities. Thus, although he does not need political peace with the utilities, he very urgently needs an economic peace...
...that he had assumed "supreme power . . . in the name of the National Army." At week's end he inaugurated a "national political purge" to punish those who have "abused power." This led observers to think that the military junta had sacrificed ousted President Páez as a scapegoat to divert attention from Ecuador's internal unrest...