Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French Indo-China itself open rebellion against Vichy, with 95% of the French colony backing General de Gaulle was reported. General Julien François René Martin, commanding the Indo-Chinese forces, announced that he would resign if the Japanese demands were granted. The Ile de France, interned at Singapore by the British while en route to French Indo-China with a cargo of airplanes, was reported at Saïgon, headquarters of pro-De Gaulle forces, with its cargo intact. British diplomatic circles even declared that Admiral Decoux had forsaken Vichy and cast his lot with De Gaulle...
...popped New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges next day to demand that Chip Robert resign at once, that the Attorney General investigate the contracts...
...gunning for the Boss's Georgia friend for years, figured this time they might have him. Chip Robert is first of all a businessman. If he were given to understand that there will be no more Government contracts until he quits his job on the Committee, he might resign...
members of the hierarchy-Bishops Charles S. Reifsnider of North Kwanto, Shirley H. Nichols of Kyoto and Norman S. Binsted of Tohoku, all of whom were in the U. S. to attend next month's Episcopal triennial General Convention at Kansas City-that they too must resign. The four native Japanese bishops who will now rule the church's 30,000 communicants voted to reject all foreign financial aid. Probable shot: withdrawal of the 85 U. S. Episcopal missionaries in Japan (they could not live on a rice-Christian's income), closing of many an Episcopal mission...
...advice as the situation develops. Meanwhile he kept mum. Judging from the Japanese Episcopal Church's last two clashes with the Government, the outlook was none too bright. Last year the president of Episcopal St. Paul's University, Tokyo, was forced to resign because, in reading the hallowed Imperial rescript on education in chapel on a national holiday, he stood on the altar steps, below the lectern where the Bible is read, thus ranking the Mikado lower than...