Word: suasion
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...drys, consolidated, President Hoover last week grew fretful. Through the press, anonymously he sent forth word that no spectacular or drastic steps would be taken in his law enforcement campaign. He proposed to proceed sanely, to instill in people a respect for all law by education and moral suasion. He sought to avoid specialization on the prohibition law. Wet observers credited him with a shrewd and nimble sidestep. Most embarrassed was Major Edwin B. Hesse of the Washington, D. C., police force, who, with impressive fanfare, had just set out to dry up the trickling capital "as an example...
...twitter, last week, over Dawn, the furiously contested cinemastory of the life & execution of Edith Cavell (TIME, Feb. 20). At the nub of controversy jutted the fact that Great Britain has been "muddling through" without a legal system of film censorship. Therefore, last week, the interplay of moral suasion was untrammeled and magnificently British. Some felt, and some did not, that to project the story of Nurse Cavell once more upon the world would be to revive War mentality at its worst and embitter Anglo-German relations. Loud, therefore, were twitterers and twitterings...
...Originally, it was, in part, regarded as reparation for the "blasphemous Albigensian heresies." Purpose. The Society lays peculiar emphasis on purity of speech. But this ideal is extended to include purity of thought and life. "It gives its members," said a Bishop, "just that amount of moral suasion to keep them loyal to the regular reception of the sacraments." Function. It serves to organize laymen for the general welfare of the Church...
...Romana with their broadswords. While it may be true in the present age there can be no peace in the world without an understanding among the English speaking nations that war shall be prohibited yet unless England and the United States stands prepared to wield more than "more suasion," such an agreement will have little real effectiveness...
...question of Franco-German relations is the greatest problem in Europe at the present day. On its successful solution depends much of the future. But even the League with at best only a loose power of moral suasion, would seem to be a greater hope for a lasting peace than a separate state, sure to invite the envy of one if not both of its great neighbors. Perhaps after all the two countries will be forced to the solution which at the moment seems the most unlikely-an economic union based on coal in the Ruhr and iron in Lorraine...