Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-riding Chinese Communists took their seats at the U.N. Security Council this week. The visitors from Peiping had a good chance of driving a wedge between the U.S. and its allies. What Communism would lose by arms in Korea, the Reds were out to recover by blackmail...
Attack. In Korea General MacArthur took the bull by the horns and threw seven divisions into an all-out drive to clear North Korea. The Chinese met the U.N. offensive with a heavy counterattack (see WAR IN ASIA). If Mao Tse-tung hoped to blackmail the U.S. and U.N. into giving him i) U.N. membership, 2) Formosa, he had to maintain a strong position in Korea for at least the next two or three weeks while his delegation was negotiating at Lake Success. The cue for U.S. delegates in the U.N. was to play for time, enter into no negotiations...
Before World War II, the networks, it is true, did reform themselves up to a point. Advertising tactics which smacked faintly of blackmail (General Mills once suggested that a character in one of its shows would die for lack of medical attention unless more Wheaties were sold) were reluctantly abandoned...
Protests crackled from coast to coast. A Washington Post reader denounced the "vicious" attempt to "blackmail parents into buying a product." The Washington Star editorially conceded that the ad "was in bad taste" and regretted its publication. Cried the Los Angeles Mirror's Columnist Hal Humphrey: "How neurotic...
...possible that the main Chinese objective was not in Korea at all, but on the political front at Lake Success. Instead of a bludgeon to knock the U.N. troops off the peninsula, the Chinese force in Korea might be a blackmail attempt to win U.N. recognition for Communist China...