Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters last week to put his affair in order. He flew 3,500miles from Frankfurt to New York to help UNRRA settle the tempest that blew up when he was badly misreported at a press conference (TIME, Jan. 14). The squarejawed, square-dealing British general, who had refused to resign as chief of UNRRA's Germany operations, conferred earnestly for four days with UNRRA's Director General Herbert Lehman...
...Washington last week top UNRRA officials wondered what to do about General Sir Frederick Morgan. They had asked him to resign his post as UNRRA director in Germany after he had charged Polish Jews with planning to flee Europe (TIME, Jan. 14). The General had ignored their demands, and that was awkward...
...General Morgan, he was an able administrator and officer (as deputy chief of staff to General Eisenhower, he had helped plan the Normandy invasion), but he sometimes talked too much. Said a correspondent: "His foot and his mouth have a great affinity." UNRRA asked him to resign. Morgan refused...
...sick as his Government. MacArthur's order covered a majority of Shidehara's colleagues, and sent them scurrying to the Premier's bedside for counsel. Foreign Minister Shigeru Yoshida was assigned to ask the Allied Commander for clarification. Should the Cabinet resign en masse, merely eliminate its undesirables, or stay on as exempt...
...Socialists, with a sharp eye for a popular cause, clamored for a 20% cut in the Army's funds. Three times during an ill-tempered debate President de Gaulle made his now familiar threat to resign. At last, tired and hoarse, the disputants compromised: the military budget was trimmed by 5%, and a further reduction would be considered next month...