Word: suasion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that end, the President hopes to hustle both men off to the isolated acres of the LBJ Ranch. There, without retinues of advisers, Johnson hopes to apply his inimitable techniques of suasion to extract from his visitors a reasonable quid...
Scorn for Suasion. In a rare show of unity-and with no other recourse-Washington, London and Moscow all threw their weight behind a United Nations effort to arrange a ceasefire. With a unanimous Security Council vote behind him, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant hurried off to the Indian sub continent, where his homilies were greeted with outright scorn. After two days of fruitless meetings in Rawalpindi, a Pakistani official said: "Thant's visit is like a Boy Scout blowing his whistle, tweet, tweet, and telling us to be good. We have been good long enough...
...RELIGION). Though the Vatican can exert no physical or political power-as Stalin gibed: "How many divisions does he have?"-its influence over the minds of men in the past, and in Europe, has amounted to the moral equivalent of armed force. The question now is how much moral suasion can be brought to bear on a dispute between Pakistan's Moslems and India's Hindus-peoples whose antagonisms, like so many of Asia's enmities (TIME Essay, April 9), are rooted in centuries of mistrust...
Beaverbrook's chosen champion was melancholy Bonar Law, a fellow Canadian who as leader of the Tory Party in 1916 had helped bring Lloyd George to power, only to resign four years later. Ailing and self-effacing, Law was a reluctant matador. But by suasion and sly pressure, Beaverbrook finally maneuvered his hero into the famed Carlton Club meeting at which Law captained a revolt of Tory M.P.s that dissolved the coalition and toppled the Big Beast. Though Law won the election, he was Prime Minister for only seven months-and confounded his eminence grise by rejecting Beaverbrook...
...about. "The Committee regards Africa as an area where the Western European countries should logically bear most of the aid burden." How easy it is to "regard Africa", so much easier than finding means to convince Europe of its responsibilities--means other than America's famous gift of moral suasion. Ten men of good will and intellect have labored three months on this report, and have presented nothing to the public beyond what Mr. Black or Professor Mason could have thought up in an armchair in three hours...