Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Jimmy Byrnes's shorthand had been transcribed, Acheson called in the Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires and handed him a blistering U.S. note: "These outrageous acts have been perpetrated by a Government that professes to be a friendly nation. . . . The use of force . . . was without the slightest justification in international...
...Forty-eight Hours. The note ridiculed the Yugoslav contention that the shootings were "accidental." It demanded the immediate release and safe conduct to the border of all U.S. plane occupants still alive and permission for them to be interviewed by a U.S. representative. The ultimatum gave Yugoslavia 48 hours from the time of its receipt to comply with the U.S. demands...
...note to Moscow the State Department bluntly warned that "should the Straits become the object of attack or threat of attack by an aggressor, the resulting situation . . . would clearly be a matter for action on the part of the Security Council of the United Nations...
Bruised Fingers. When the U.S. first demanded an explanation, Tito said that U.S. planes had repeatedly violated Yugoslav sovereignty. Then the U.S. sent its sternest postwar note (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Russians were scarcely more surprised by the swiftness and stiffness of the U.S. note than Britons, many of whom, familiar with hit & run U.S. foreign policy, are fearful of being left to face Russia alone. London's leftist New Statesman & Nation counseled caution: "Mr. Bevin would be well advised to remember that... his bid for American support in Palestine has failed spectacularly and left us far worse off. ... Can he expect any better results elsewhere in the Middle East...