Word: blackmailed
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...security clearance and decided to send him to Birmingham University to do nonsecret work. There was no allegation of any disloyal act by Davison himself: his integrity was not questioned. Nonetheless, the government had decided that since he has relatives in Russia, he might be subject to blackmail by threats to their safety. The British now accept what the U.S. has long believed: that a man can be a security risk without being disloyal...
...finest hour, but with one eye on the future, the handsome Foreign Secretary reiterated his loyalty to the Tory Party. Bobbety, as a Cecil feeling no need to protest his Tory loyalty, bluntly told the House of Commons that Chamberlain's policy was "a surrender to blackmail." After Munich, and Chamberlain's fatuous promise of "peace with honor," Salisbury demanded ". . . Where is honor?" The right policy, he said, was "rearm, rearm and rearm...
...maverick was a Republican problem and the Democrats should not take him over. When one Midwestern Democrat reported a Morse threat to campaign against him if the Democrats didn't come through, Johnson snapped: "You aren't trying to argue that we should give in to political blackmail...
Quite overcome, Brazil's Joao Carlos Muniz cried that he foresaw a possible "turning point in history." Andrei Vishinsky, who had arrived in October accusing the U.S. of "bluster and blackmail," now announced that "the rays of sunshine are visible through the clouds." Everybody was at least grateful for Vishinsky's present politeness, however temporary...
...nations joined the party in the credulous '30s. Stalin was an administrative genius-with the advantage of being able to concede his errors and bury his mistakes. It took skill to pick devoted men, to enlist their talents while subduing their ambitions, to reward or discard, flatter or blackmail, soothe or scourge, at the necessary moment. Stalin governed by a cunning balancing of tensions, and was himself aloof and unhurried...