Word: duress
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...million in reparations from Austria be given to Yugoslavia. The Western powers refused. Russia wanted "German assets" in Austria (available for seizure as German reparations) defined to include all property transferred by Austrians to Germans during the Anschluss. The Western powers wanted to except assets transferred under Nazi duress...
...identity; mental deficiency "sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice"; insanity; failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; impotence; perversion or venereal disease undisclosed to the other party; bigamy; a concurrent contract inconsistent with canonical marriage (such as a "companionate marriage" agreement); fraud; coercion; duress "or such defects of the personality as to make competent or free consent impossible...
Sirs: What an acknowledgment of error: "a grey prison-made suit with $10 of the State's money" after twelve years' imprisonment on false testimony obtained under duress. While nothing could make full retribution to the individual in a case such as this, surely a State should feel financial liability to the extent of assistance until suitable permanent employment could be found-if greater financial compensation is impossible under existing laws. Thanks to TIME [Aug. 27] and the Chicago Daily Times for publishing the story of Joe Majczek and his mother...
Retreat to the Reich? Moscow said that the Germans were rushing up reserves and new equipment to stop the Russians. Berlin talked of "elastic German defenses leading to further withdrawals." Perhaps the Germans were withdrawing under duress. Perhaps the Russians were pursuing more than attacking but wanted to make their gains loom as large as possible. Perhaps the Germans' "further withdrawals" may eventually take them out of Russia. If so, these circumstances explained in part the speed of the Red Army's offensive...
...Returned merchandise (often 20% of all sales) is one nuisance merchants may eliminate by mutual agreement under the duress of rising overhead...