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...four votes out of a total of eleven. Yet Welles would base his international organization on regional as well as national representation, and he would have certain designated regions do their own policing. In all of this blueprint organizational work, readers may wonder where the ultimate power of coercion is to rest. Mr. Welles is above all a diplomatic technician; nevertheless, he admits that no international organization can survive unless it is supported by the opinion of free men & women throughout the world-which tosses the ball back to the moralists and the philosophers...
...State Department seemed to be planning some positive action in regard to Argentina, perhaps the long-rumored trade embargo. But this might be a tricky weapon. Argentines loathe outside coercion even more than they loathe their blundering militarists...
Comrade and Catechist. Father Orlemanski: "Do you think it admissible for the Soviet Government to pursue a policy of persecution and coercion with regard to the Catholic Church?" Stalin: "As an advocate of the freedom of conscience and of worship, I consider such a policy to be inadmissible and precluded." Father Orlemanski: "Do you think that the cooperation with the Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, in the matter of struggle against coercion and persecution of the Catholic Church is possible?" Stalin: "I think it is possible." Stalin then signed the two written questions, gave Father Orlemanski permission to make them...
...Philadelphia plant suggesting that the company union was a pretty good thing after all. He pointed out that in ten years it had raised the base-pay rate from 55? to $1.09 an hour. The C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers, working to unionize the plant, screamed "coercion" and got NLRB to file the motion for contempt...
Gangster Jeremiah Sullivan, 46, last week gave a New York Supreme Court judge a tough question to ponder. Strongarm man Sullivan, convicted of coercion, asked that a three-year reformatory sentence be changed to a one-year straight prison term. Reminding the court that he lost his civil rights when he was found guilty of second-degree murder in 1918, ex-Convict Sullivan contended: "You cannot reform a person who has no rights...