Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midnight the meeting broke up. "Agreement is near," yawned a sleepy French official. Mendès had only 24 hours left to make good on his pledge to get peace or resign...
Escorting Molotov to the door. Mendès glanced at his watch, and said jestingly: "Mr. Minister, it is after two o'clock. I have lost my bet. Do you think I should resign?" Molotov answered:"You mustn't do that." Said Mendès: "Thank you, Mr. Minister. May I tell the French Parliament that I stayed in office at your insistence?" "I don't think that would help you," said Molotov amiably, and climbed into his curtained black...
...Well, quite frankly, quite a few of your Conservative friends are saying that it would be a good thing for the party if you were to resign some time fairly soon," replied the journalist...
...President's share, his Agriculture Minister, holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy, explained to a friend: "Arbenz gave his Communist pals 10,000 quetzales apiece before he quit, but he did not even tell us he was going to resign." Arbenz probably took most of the loot into the Mexican embassy. Now his problem is to get away with it. Even if he gets a safe-conduct out of the country, the new government, under the rules of asylum, could search his baggage and seize any boodle. But a diplomatic cut of the loot to the right hands might...
...even want the job. In his diary he listed his misgivings: "AGAINST-1) I do not feel I have the qualifications. That's the all-compelling reason. 2) Trouble lies ahead. 3) Lack of seniority: if I don't make a success of it, I would resign, then where would I be? 4) Worry. Could I physically stand it? 5) Less time with the children. Heaven knows it is little enough now. FOR-1) A little greater material return. 2) It would be a new challenge." On Sept. 1, 1945, on Bill Allen's 45th birthday...