Word: suasion
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...Moral Suasion. New price controls were impractical now, he said. So were excess profits taxes. So were buyers' strikes. In answer to a question, he agreed that his only weapon was "moral suasion...
Then, with his ear cocked to the political front, he directed his "moral suasion" toward business. Business, he said, had wanted free enterprise. Now let's see them make it work. He went further. He hinted strongly that if business did not bring prices down, he would back Labor's demands for another round of wage boosts...
...fear more than the Colossus. He is, after all, our Colossus. Besides, if he becomes predatory, as he used to be, we now have the world organization to appeal to. Not that it will do much good-the Colossus has his veto. But there is the Assembly. And moral suasion. And in our little spats with each other, there is the Court...
Perhaps a handful of U.S. marines could capture the island. But the U.S. was still reluctant to win by force anything that might be won by suasion...
...revise Neutrality at this session of Congress. The Committee's vote was close: 12-to-11. It was particularly painful to Cordell Hull because one of those who voted against him was his old friend Walter George of Georgia, upon whom he had exerted long and prayerful suasion. Now revision of Neutrality was lost, probably unless and until Adolf Hitler should march, and then Mr. Hull thought it would be too late...