Word: coercion
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...Council took its stand after a suggestion by Clifford L. Alexander '55, president, and muttering of "coercion in a democratic university community" from several of the members...
...Custodial Force sailed last fall for Korea, Prime Minister Nehru promised his followers that India "would not run away from her responsibilities." These were: 1) hold the 22,500 anti-Communist and 350 pro-Communist prisoners, with minimum bloodshed, for 120 days; 2) supervise explanations, prevent coercion and guarantee repatriation for those who requested it; and 3) release all remaining P.W.s as free civilians at the end of the 120 days -at 12:01 a.m., Jan. 23, 1954-India's disciplined troops and civil servants handled the first two jobs in a calm, conscientious manner that won the respect...
...China's reaction to this "spontaneous capitalism" was more socialization, more coercion. Peking radio announced last week that the first, far-famed "agrarian reform," which theoretically gave small plots to poor peasants to own and work for themselves, was now proving "unstable . . . weak . ... unable to weather natural calamities." Instead, the peasants' "individual economy" will be transformed along Russian lines: 35,800 collective farms will be set up before this year's harvest...
...basset hounds, Bevan finally gave a press conference. How about Egypt's threat of neutralism and the cold war? Bevan was all for neutralism because it would mean "an increase in the number of footloose nations." Does he consider the U.S. an imperialist nation? "When big powers use coercion and intimidation upon other nations, like the U.S. is doing in France," said he, "she is pretty near to becoming imperialistic...
...Ofttimes an individual is not aware of the artful, clever devices which have been employed to rob a man of his independence of judgment. This may take the obvious form of physical force or the threat of force [or] the subtle form of coercion . . . false innuendo, and even of outright lies." The letter asked the prisoners if they were sure they were making up their own minds, if they had considered their families, if they realized that promises might be false. "There is nothing more humiliating than to discover that one has been a fool, used for someone...