Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coercion?" we asked...
...thought it was [Treasury Secretary George] Humphrey, [Commerce Secretary Sinclair] Weeks and [Defense Secretary Charles] Wilson who were doing that. If the N.A.M. philosophy is to disfranchise unions, then there is no answer but to start a labor party." The closed shop, the union boss snapped, "involves no coercion. It is simply an exercise of our right not to work with a man who is not in a union." Sligh managed to interject: "Do you believe in segregation?" Meany replied: "This is not segregation." Persisted Sligh: "Then it is discrimination." Retorted Meany: "We belong to a union on exactly...
...which began with the Jewish (New Year last month, is the Keren Yeldenu (Our Child's Fund), a citizens' organization. It has removed some 1,400 children from mission auspices during the past two years and placed them in 37 youth clubs and day nurseries. Charges of coercion frequently fly back and forth be tween mission schools and their opponents...
...Advisory Committee on Prisoners of War reported to the President. "The name, rank and service number provisions of the Geneva conventions is accepted as this line of resistance. However, in the face of experience, it is recognized that the P.W. may be subjected to an extreme of coercion beyond his ability to resist. If in his battle with the interrogator he is driven from his first line of resistance, he must be trained for resistance in successive positions. And, to stand on the final line to the end-no disclosure of vital military information, and above all no disloyalty...
...Christianity brought the Western world concepts of mercy and chivalry, the treatment of prisoners improved. During the Revolution, the Continental army decreed death for American P.W.s who took up arms for the British after their capture; duress or coercion were not accepted as an excuse unless the P.W. could show he had been threatened with death. During the Civil War, 3,170 Union P.W.s who joined their Confederate captors were liable for prosecution and some were put to death; the U.S. also ruled at this time that it was the duty of P.W.s to escape...