Word: blackmailed
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...week's end, over Radio Tirana, brash Enver Hoxha (pronounced Ho-jah), carried the attack directly to Khrushchev, warning that Albania "was not alone" in resisting Khrushchev's "calumnies, blackmail and blockade." The main issue, said Hoxha, was settling the problem of West Berlin and signing a peace treaty with East Germany. He bluntly accused Khrushchev of dragging his feet and of delaying "from year to year...
After months of public haggling, the U.N. Security Council last week succumbed to Russian blackmail and voted in two new members: Mauritania and the Mongolian People's Republic (Outer Mongolia...
...recognition of Red China. Bitterly, he sent a letter to France's Charles de Gaulle, asking for his help in threatening or importuning the French Africans; De Gaulle replied that he dared not intervene lest the Brazzaville group be aroused against France. Finally Chiang gave in. Decrying Russian "blackmail." Nationalist China walked out of the Security Council, but did not veto; the U.S. abstained, permitting Outer Mongolia's "unanimous" admission. Moments later, Mauritania too was admitted, becoming the U.N.'s 103rd member...
...Blackmail though it was, the U.S. and Nationalist China had won a reprieve on the seating of Red China...
Broadly Based. "But our real strength in Berlin-and at any other point in the perimeter of the free world's defenses that might tempt the Communist probes-is much more broadly based. Our confidence in our ability to deter Communist action, or resist Communist blackmail, is based upon a sober appreciation of the relative military power of the two sides. The fact is that this nation has a nuclear retaliatory force of such lethal power that an enemy move which brought it into play would be an act of self-destruction on his part. The United States...