Word: blackmailing
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...some time been trying to get reporters, preferably those it picked, to come into Communist China," Dulles told his press conference, "and it has repeatedly tried to use the illegal detention of Americans in Communist China as a means of pressure to accomplish its ends . . . That kind of blackmail I don't propose to satisfy...
...Chinese maneuver, but neither, apparently, did President Eisenhower. "This is a new thought that has come in," said Ike next day at his press conference. Newsmen could squeeze no details out of the State Department; this increased their irritation. "I'm not in favor of a blackmail proposition, either," said J. Edward Murray, managing editor of the Los Angeles Mirror-News. "Dulles is not wrong to refuse to bargain on the basis of the prisoners' release. But it's a separate issue entirely...
Irritated by this crude attempt at blackmail, the Assembly lost no time in handing Kuznetsov a well-earned rebuff. By a vote of 51-20, the Philippines got a seat in the Council...
Because of Western insistence on "free, unfettered elections" and party government, Stalin arranged that the provisional government (Deputy Premier: Gomulka) should include the Polish Peasant Party and the Social Democrats as well as the Communists, but he had his men ceaselessly working to surround, isolate, blackmail, and even to murder, the democratic politicians. "Poland's secret government,'' wrote Polish Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, "is headed by a man few Poles have ever seen-the Russian general Malinov. His name has never appeared in a Polish newspaper. He has never made a public appearance in Poland...
...that the Egyptian invasion was or could somehow still be made a success. They were supported by some who deplored the initial assault, yet now felt that an ignominiously fast withdrawal might make things worse. Others were rankled by the painful dependence on the U.S. They grumbled of "American blackmail." Editorialized the Daily Telegraph: "Some American comment on the oil situation sounded very much like a threat of economic sanctions...