Buchanan complained Paraguay refused to ratify the treaty "on frivolous and even insulting pretexts". They formed a Nunnery Committee that raided Catholic schools and convents on trumped-up pretexts. Though supported by plausible pretexts, the demand was received as unusual and inadmissible. The conspirators from the interior arrived in Belgrade the day before, under various pretexts. The Featherston Administration revoked citizenship on as many pretexts as possible. The Russian Revolution had been one of the pretexts allegedly making their repatriation impossible. Family celebrations and banquets also served as pretexts for gatherings. Ibris' refusal was one of the pretexts for the war. However, those seem to have been pretexts rather than the true reasons. For British no more pretexts were needed to arrest Raja. Kurdish publications created throughout the 1960s and 1970s were shut down under various legal pretexts. This became one of the pretexts claimed by the coup leaders of 1991. Several replicas and variations have also been made and exhibited under similar names and pretexts. There were several pretexts for landing in Germany as well. Chardigny in his report were the pretexts for Lithuania not to recognise it.