Word: withholds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply of toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain. In effect, he invented modern economic warfare...
...prepared by Giraud for submission to De Gaulle turned out to be resting in Bob Murphy's coat pocket). The recent Giraud speech on French unity showed definite signs of U.S. influence; there were reports that he framed it as he did partly because the U.S. threatened to withhold equipment from his French troops. But such manifestations did not necessarily prove that Henri Giraud was a mere opportunist. He probably gave a better explanation in Algiers, just after his unity speech, and just before he left for Tunisia, when he said...
...Today Switzerland is just one big factory working day and night for the Germans." (Until France fell the Swiss worked almost exclusively for the Allies, now have to sell to German markets lest the Nazis withhold vital coal supplies. Even so, Switzerland still trades with the U.S., has 14 Swiss ships plying the Atlantic...
...Deception? The oft-stated reason for military secrecy is to withhold information that might benefit the enemy. Mel Maas thought he knew another reason, and it was the blackest charge in his book: "Possibly the motive for this policy of mishandling war facts is to keep from stirring up the people and Congress, in the fear that the people, through Congress, might force some reforms on the executive bureaus." In effect, Congressman Maas charged the military leaders with concealing the facts to cover their mistakes and the mistakes of their subordinates. How this is done, according to Congressman Maas...
...years I have considered myself a refugee from my native country, Japan, and have endeavored to win the Japanese people to the cause of humanity and freedom. For the sake of my relatives still in Japan, I must ask you to withhold my identity...