Word: blackmailing
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East Germans $1,748 to cover room and board for the nine Americans. Clearly defeated in their attempt at the higher blackmail, the Communists nevertheless regaled each other with the idiocy that the U.S. had implied recognition by the mere fact that a settlement had been made. If they seriously believed this, they had made themselves the most laughable buccaneers since Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance...
...bitter at its NATO allies over the Cyprus dispute, the suspicion spread that Greece might be heading off into a neutralists' no man's land. But both Premier Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Averoff insisted otherwise. The Turks described the Greek meeting with Tito and Nasser as attempted blackmail. The Greeks replied that they were merely conferring with a next-door neighbor and Balkan Pact ally (Yugoslavia) and a Mediterranean trading partner (Egypt, where 100,000 Greeks live). The Greeks were undoubtedly looking around for new friends, but this was hardly proof that they were running...
...lines of approach to the problem: 1) the U.S. will not pay "blackmail" to get the Americans out, and although 2) the U.S. does not intend to use force to get them out, 3) the U.S. hopes to convince the kidnapers through patient diplomatic negotiation that kidnaping is "counterproductive," i.e., hardly puts Americans in the mood for any kind of concession...
Bogie looks perhaps a bit weary; it is his nature, because life is a comedy of self interest in which the most diverting characters practice violence, and that is always tiring. In this particular film, the source of the violence is a blackmail scheme, and the violent action skits in diverse directions, usually accompanied by Mr. Bogart. And where he goes, goes Miss Bacall...
...grim bargain between Brand and his mortal enemies, and tried to hamstring his efforts to reach others. One appalling reason given by Brand: the British did not know where to put the Jews without increasing their quota for admission to Palestine. They also acted on the principle that blackmail is never paid off, that simply nothing can be gained by negotiating with monsters. First the war must be won, argued the British; then others must sweep up the bits. It fell to Brand, as the master moneychanger in the temple of evil that Hitler had made of Europe, to deal...