Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Djilas and is now running the country while Titc is away, spoke up. "Every honest man would spit in the face of 'politicians' of this type," he told a party gathering at Sarajevo. That Djilas and Dedijer should air their grievances abroad, he said, represents "a filthy blackmail of our democracy...
...Interior on charges of extorting $120,000 from local Chinese businessmen. Diem scheduled a spectacular public trial, in which his prosecutors intend to show how the ex-Minister's policemen arrested wealthy Chinese and threatened to deport them "for helping the Viet Minh" unless the Chinese paid blackmail. Diem wants to use the trial to herald a big new campaign against corruption in demoralized South Viet Nam. There are faint signs that his austere new nationalism is beginning to catch an apathetic public's fancy. But Diem still has far to go and little time...
France has again shown that it is the most aggressive nation in Europe, beside Russia. What a shame to blackmail Germany and try to force her to give up the Saar...
...prospect is that it will be cut further. Use of the enormous military plant now seems to depend on the Communists. If they make a rash move, possibly the U.S. will be able to punish them; if they do not, the U.S. will go on paying blackmail to the threat of aggression at the rate of $750 per family per year...
...enough. But Parson Perry was adamant, and Parent Filler made arrangements to have Christine baptized in the neighboring parish of St. John's. "I think the Church of England must be in a very bad way to revert to forced religion," he said. "It's blackmail...