Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulle's blast had immediate effects. The French cabinet nervously asked London to postpone the official announcement. Field Marshal Montgomery, who had felt so sure of his appointment that he had prepared to resign as chief of the Imperial General Staff, was waiting in his new Surrey country house to hear whether or not he had a job. Never a popular general, Monty faced much opposition as "chairman" of Western Europe's command...
Permanent president Stu Bottle (he's too apathetic to resign) was discovered once again on his Eliot House settee late Monday, and he promised the same square deal and concrete principles which characterized his inaction last year. "I will do nothing," said Bottle...
Each night Galo Plaza relaxed at home with bullfighting or cattle-raising magazines. Each weekend, he drove out to one of his farms, refusing to say which one. "Every Friday night I shall resign," he said, "and resume office Monday morning. Meanwhile, I shall interview my cows...
...last week and 15 hours on the next, they deadlocked cabinet meetings. Finally, Premier Marie had enough of it. "We are up against a blank wall," he said, "and I don't like the view." He decided to trick the Socialist tricksters, who, he knew, wanted to resign separately from the cabinet and leave him holding the bag. Marie asked to be excused for a minute. "I'll be right back," he said. Most of the ministers thought he had gone to the lavatory. Actually he had gone to draw up his government's resignation...
...Newfoundland as the Dominion's tenth province was a foul plot to bring in 350,000 British votes to drown out French Canada, that Prime Minister King started World War II by "provoking Hitler," that Louis St. Laurent was a discredited leader of the French Canadians and should resign. When it was all over, jubilant Union Nationale supporters paraded Godbout in effigy through Quebec City streets...