Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give force to his demands, De Gaulle stayed away from meetings of the Committee, threatened to resign. This his supporters could not permit; he was still the symbol of resistance. On the other hand, De Gaulle could not actually carry out his threat; Churchill had said that henceforth Britain's dealings, financial and otherwise, would be with the new Committee, no longer with the Fighting French...
...ordered cessation of all negotiations, and marched to the White House. Then the members angrily demanded that Harold Ickes stop meddling. To them the first, most important thing was the principle that WLB should not be bypassed. To Ickes the job was to get coal mined. WLBsters threatened to resign en masse. Faced with a choice of jettisoning his own Labor Board or of getting a quick settlement (in which Lewis might seem to win), Franklin Roosevelt upheld...
Marcel Peyrouton, anathema to the De Gaullists, patriotically offered to resign as Governor General of Algeria, General de Gaulle promptly accepted. Furious Giraudists charged that the Fighting French were usurping power, plotting a coup...
Abandoned by his friends, deserted by his more powerful ministers, scorned by his people, Ramon Castillo had come to the end of the road called Prudent Neutrality. There was only one course: resign. This Castillo did at the headquarters of the 7th Infantry. He had gained office through accident and stayed in office through fraud. Now he turned over the reigns of government to a military junta which did not seem to know where it was going but at least was aware that prudence in 1943 means cooperation with the United Nations...
...smiler, according to the New York Times, was the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Admiral William Standley. He was described as so piqued over the Davies display that he was determined to resign. Commented the Admiral: "I have nothing...