The man waves his hand at them, not unfriendly.
George Jones, the editor, feared that ownership of the paper would pass into unfriendly hands.
If you should fall into unfriendly hands, there will be a finite amount you can tell them.
An unfriendly hand in 1562 describes him as "learned but not very wise".
Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.
But not a one by an unfriendly hand.
We don't want them to fall into unfriendly hands.
Any letters that might fall into unfriendly hands would thus prove useless.
Then, of course, it's a good way to keep things from falling into unfriendly hands.
Since it's the most classified thing in the air right now, they might not want it to fall into unfriendly hands.