Word: duress
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...special Inter-Departmental fund to relieve the duress of Departments hit hardest by the cut. "Two or three additional men in these Departments would make a lot of difference," the report said...
...merchandise stamped "Made in Germany." In some shipments, customers found sheafs of Nazi propaganda. By last week at least 200 German firms and agencies were depending in large part on selling or representing U. S. products; over 90% of them were pro-Nazi either by choice or by duress. Almost a third of all U. S. commercial agents in Mexico today are Germans by birth. Some names...
...swampy jungles along the Mekong River since October, but fortnight ago Tokyo offered its services. When the offer was not immediately accepted, Japan became insistent, threatening. Nipponese warlords insisted that, as "the most stabilizing power in the Far East," Japan alone had the right to settle Oriental differences. Under duress Vichy, then Thailand, accepted...
...into three snags: 1) the jealousy of rival trust men; 2) their lack of ready cash, which might force them to sell their own securities in the thinnest market in years; 3) their fear of being accused of taking advantage of the British, buying them out under duress...
This week that fate was sealed, so far as France's new Government was concerned (see p. 20). But how many officers would obey orders issued under Axis duress and surrender their ships remained a major question. Bulk of the French Navy was believed to be in the Eastern Mediterranean. When the commandant of the naval base at Toulon announced that he and his men would fight on regardless of the armistices, that seemed a clue to the temper of French naval forces in the West. The French had been operating since September under direction of the British Admiralty...