Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When James Byrnes was U.S. Secretary of State (1945-47), one of the big international issues was the U.S. demand for a secret ballot in Eastern European countries occupied by the Red army. Byrnes had to carry the ball for a democratic safeguard against voter coercion which his own state had not adopted...
PRIESTS LIKE THE REV. WILLIAM C. KERNAN [TIME, MAY 26], WHO SEEK AN ULTIMATE AUTHORITARIANISM WHICH THEY CAN EXERCISE IN THE CHURCH, WILL ALWAYS FIND THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH UNCONGENIAL TO THEIR MINISTRIES. HE HAS CONFUSED AUTHORITY WITH REGIMENTATION, AND RELIGIOUS CERTAINTY WITH ECCLESIASTICAL COERCION. NOTHING WOULD SIMPLIFY THE TASK OF THE PRIESTHOOD IN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH AS MUCH AS A GRANT OF THE KIND OF AUTHORITARIANISM MR. KERNAN SEEMS TO SEEK. FEW THINGS WOULD SO EFFECTIVELY OBSCURE AND CORRUPT THE NATURE OF THE CHURCH AS THE NEW TESTAMENT REVEALS IT . . . THE THING THAT MAKES THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH...
...Convention provides that "no torture, nor any other form of coercion may be inflicted on prisoners to secure information of any kind." The Communists claim that coercion was used in the U.N.'s repatriation balloting-but rejected a U.N. offer to come see for themselves...
...cannot call juggling a school schedule active coercion, but it represents a partiality for organized religion that is intolerable in a society which has with justice always considered such matters intensely private. By allowing a released time program in their schools, states have encouraged the spread of religion actively, and although there is nothing wrong with religion, it is none of any public agency's business. The form taken by this prodding may be subtler than the stake and tinder box of bygone days, but the invasion of privacy it represents is no less marked, the right of free...
Blanshard, outspoken foe of the Catholic hierarchy, said Catholics have "every right to organize a separate and partisan school system in opposition to the public school, but they have no moral right to maintain such a system by coercion...