Word: smokescreening
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Official union leaders at the meeting wanted the ship to sail. Murphy's immediate demands (for more representation from the rank & file at union negotiations) were only a smokescreen for his major aim: to hold the Mary at Southampton for at least a day, regardless of the cost. If he could do that, he might inject some hope into the fading Merseyside strike...
...Comunist menace in this country, Wallace declared, is a "smokescreen" obscuring "policies and actions which will bring depression, war, and an American brand of fascism...
Industrial leaders have barraged Washington with the claim that prices must rise to stimulate a "flood of production." This is a mere smokescreen of words thrown out by the highly-geared propaganda agency of the National Association of Manufacturers. Higher prices will not cure the labor and material shortages that set the limits of production today. Only reconversion time and labor-management peace can bring greater production. It was not the OPA, nor is it the Wagner Act, which is in need of revision. The revision of statutes most necessary now are revisions based on the recognition that millions...
Last week, with only one junior officer still to be sentenced, the Army seemed ready to close its books on the case. At least two questions remained unanswered. Was the conviction of Kilian just a smokescreen to conceal a policy ordered from above? How far could a superior officer go in disclaiming the acts of his juniors? Editorialized the Washington Post: "Generals Yamashita and Homma were convicted. . . . Is the principle of a commander's responsibility for Japanese only...
Dreary Epilogue? Were Nazi babblings of "peace terms" and "withdrawal" a smokescreen?-another desperate stall for time? One thing was certain. Hitler & Co. were still on top, arid so long as they stayed on top there could be no peace. Heinrich Himmler was preparing a fanatical home army to fight the final battle between the Oder and the Rhine, and to fight on as guerrillas after the last battle was lost. The Allies, east and west, needed to get into Germany as soon as possible, to upset these preparations before they became effective. Otherwise the war might drag...