Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jogjakarta the Republican government denounced Muso and his men as "traitors," ordered the army to put down the rebellion. From Washington, Dutch Foreign Minister Dirk Stikker, who had been telling U.S. officials about the Communist threat in Indonesia, made a cagey offer of Dutch help: "We are ready to meet and support Premier Hatta if he is ready to make arrangements with the Dutch." To Indonesia's Premier Hatta it looked like a very big "if"; he said he would not tolerate any Dutch "meddling...
...strings are attached to the Massachusetts offer, according to the Commission. The student who votes in Massachusetts pays no state income or property tax and is under no financial obligation to the state other than a minimal $2 poll tax. Upon graduation, a simple declaration of intention to reside elsewhere will be sufficient to give up Massachusetts citizenship...
Last week, after almost doubling its North Korean native army, the Russians made their offer again, this time even more magnanimously. From Moscow, just in time to impress the U.N. General Assembly in Paris, came the announcement that all Soviet troops would be withdrawn from Korea by Jan. 1, whether the U.S. followed suit or not. The action, said the Russians, was taken at the request of the "Supreme National Assembly of Korea" (the puppet government), which hoped that now "the U.S. would agree to withdrawal of its troops...
...anonymous Frenchman had offered Oxford ?1,500,000 ($6,000,000)-biggest gift ever received from a foreigner, and second largest in modern times.* There were a few strings attached. Most of the money was to be used to start a new college. Its name: St. Anthony's. Its general purpose: training young men "of strong will and character as leaders of the future." One-third of the college's undergraduates must be French. A final condition explained the council's unacademic haste: the offer was a take-it-or-leave-it; the donor was about...
...took the dons less than one hour to accept the offer, but it would be months before Oxford's senior common rooms tired of the great guessing game the gift had started. From Paris last week came one guess about Monsieur X's identity: Leon Fabre, 62, multi-millionaire head of the Fabre shipping lines, and a postwar resident...