Word: extorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courts conducted by men of their own country and according to their own country's laws. Such rights were justifiable when first established, for Chinese justice was then not conducted according to methods which western nations regarded as wholly civilized. It was permissible in Chinese courts, for example, to extort testimony by torture. Now the Powers here assembled have agreed that foreign courts will be withdrawn as soon as an international commission can determine that Chinese courts are adequate...