Word: suasion
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Above all, Southern Rhodesia's government is showing signs of bending before the suasion of a largely antiracist world. Rising at the annual conference of his powerful United Federal Party, Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead announced that if his party wins the election next year, his government will ban racial discrimination in most areas of life, a shift that would change the face of the nation. The local black African nationalists are unimpressed, insist on the grant of immediate universal suffrage, which Whitehead has not promised. Said one of their leaders: "We are not interested in the elimination...
...admit Harvard does not have the responsibility to find jobs for graduates," Bigwood remarked, "but there is a factor of moral suasion." He said he thought the University might have "some possible duty in helping people...
...staff, watched approvingly as the bad banners were heaped in a pile, doused with gasoline and set afire. General Ouane. who has a Buddhist horror of going to extremes, says, "There is no question of making physical war on the opium growers." Instead, the government will employ the moral suasion of the Comite de Defense des Interets Nationaux, led by ascetic young army officers, government workers and officials of the royal household. The villages are to be purified by the means of mo lam, or blind wandering minstrels who are traditional Laotian entertainers and have added to their repertory special...
...process of justice was allowed to take its orderly course, and it ended with Orval Faubus withdrawing his militiamen from Little Rock's Central High School. That done, the President of the U.S. could throw the power of moral suasion into achieving peaceful integration in Little Rock. "I am confident," said President Eisenhower, "that they [the people of Little Rock] will vigorously oppose any violence by extremists . . . I am confident that the citizens of the city of Little Rock and the State of Arkansas will welcome this opportunity to demonstrate that in their city and in their state, proper...
...only had to continue for a couple of days more and that job would have been done. The only new element that had come in was these Soviet threats, which were very, very strongly phrased." "But," insisted CBS Newsman George Herman, "you don't think it was moral suasion that stopped them?" Answered Dillon unequivocally: "I don't think it is moral suasion, no." Broadcast three days later, Dillon's recorded remarks stirred pro-Americans in Egypt, who were afraid that apparent U.S. sponsorship of the phony Moscow-did-it line might harm U.S. prestige just when...