Word: submitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magnificent frontier province to British India. The Mesopotamian campaign had slopped over into always neutral Persia, but in 1918 the British drove the Turks out and garrisoned Persia's strong places. The next year Shah Ahmad, even bleaker-brained than Shah Muzaffar, had no alternative but to submit to an agreement by which his country came under Britain's political and military control...
With a ringing blast on the Senate floor and the most comprehensive figures yet released by anyone on rearmament progress, he had smoked the President out on defense, spoiled his day at Hyde Park, made him submit figures of his own, drawn from him a stinging reply that somebody had sold the Senator down the river by giving him a set of false statistics...
...dapper Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles telephoned equally dapper Ambassador Felipe Espil of Argentina and Brazilian Ambassador Carlos Martins. The three went into a huddle, emerged with a stopgap proposal: Peru and Ecuador should each withdraw 15 kilometers (9½ mi.) from their present frontier stations, cease hostilities, submit their dispute once more to Argentine-Brazilian-U.S. mediation...
Truman read him the passage. Would Hook go back to his A.F. of L. followers and recommend that they submit their demands ($1.15 instead of $1.12 an hour wages, double time instead of time and a half for overtime, a closed-shop contract with big Bethlehem shipyard) to arbitration? Hook flopped and squirmed, finally promised to put it up to the machinists but not with his recommendation, and fled from the angry committee, wailing that he had been "accorded brutal treatment." At week's end, except for a little work performed by nonstriking workers who had crossed the machinists...
...thence to Dakar or Casablanca on the West African coast, thence to North African ports, thence (running the British blockade) to Marseille. The British Government announced last week that it had obtained copies of an order by Admiral Darlan to French merchant captains to scuttle their ships rather than submit to British capture-the order including descriptions of the best German-tested scuttling methods...