Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London flew Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to give King George VI a firsthand report of the Big Three meeting. Then, back at No. 10 Downing Street, he waited for the election count. Next evening, when defeat was sure, he went back to Buckingham Palace to resign and hand over to the King the seals of office. His Majesty offered him the Order of the Garter. Churchill refused the dignity. An hour later he issued a statement...
Juan was "not impressed" by the Franco performance. He pointed instead to his own manifesto of last March (TIME, April 2), urging Franco to resign and make way for a democratic monarchy. In a Pretender, patience and perseverance are almost prerequisites, and in his 14 years abroad Don Juan had learned to wait...
...have a new No. 1 man-and perhaps a new policy-in troubled Italy. Colonel James Henderson Douglas Jr., 46, a Chicago lawyer and businessman now serving in the Air Transport Command, has agreed to resign from the Army Air Forces early this month and join the Allied Commission in Rome...
...Austrian Alps. Reports that he might come home sent angry citizens swirling through the streets, shouting: "Down with Leopold!'' "Hang the King!" Defiant Walloons (French-speaking Belgians) threatened to bar his reentry into the country with their bodies. Socialist Premier Achille van Acker threatened to resign if King Leopold set foot on Belgian soil. There were rumors that Britain might intervene to restore Leopold to his throne...
Tired of Hays Office punctiliousness, some member-studios have from time to time moved to resign (six-month notice from United Artists is on file now). But only Warner Bros, has gone through with it. Author Moley believes the Hays Office is here to stay...