Word: duress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John had stunned the West by defecting to the Communists. Later, at an East Berlin press conference, he had charged that the Nazis were taking over the West German Republic, and accused the U.S. of creating a "hysterical fear psychosis." John had given no sign that he was under duress. Said a newsman: "Not a single person who attended the conference left with any doubt that his defection was voluntary...
...social, religious, and consequently psychological forces governing a group before one can honestly understand its political behaviour. The first book in this field, France, a Study in Nationality, may be Seigfried's greatest work. His predictions in 1913 on the future of Western France have held true through the duress of two world wars...
With the Christmas card man missing, a police sergeant and Steiner began searching the dorms. When they came to Bowen's room, the sergeant asked, "Is a card salesman here?" Under duress, Bowen said no, but Steiner spotted him in the room, and the sergeant seized him for questioning...
...Christianity brought the Western world concepts of mercy and chivalry, the treatment of prisoners improved. During the Revolution, the Continental army decreed death for American P.W.s who took up arms for the British after their capture; duress or coercion were not accepted as an excuse unless the P.W. could show he had been threatened with death. During the Civil War, 3,170 Union P.W.s who joined their Confederate captors were liable for prosecution and some were put to death; the U.S. also ruled at this time that it was the duty of P.W.s to escape...
...like quickly passing the Scotch tape and paper clips along the courtroom table when they were required. "Once I get back to the States I'm not worried," Gallagher once told a reactionary. "All I have to do is to plead that I did those things under mental duress." Gallagher did not believe that the U.S. Government could do anything or would bother him. But Sergeant Gallagher could be wrong...