Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite frenzied attempts by the Arab world to clog the machinery of the United Nations, the General Assembly voted last Saturday to partition Palestine and give the Jewish people a homeland. The thirty-three-to-thirteen ballot brought truculent howls from the delegates of six Arab states and the threat of a Holy War to preserve the sacred sterility of Palestine's soil. With the passage of this first important legislative decree the United Nations reaches a vital turning point in its history...
Whatever their aim, they had made a pretty good answer to the U.S.'s highhanded threat to ban bulb imports...
...arrived in Washington, D.C. last week on an important commercial mission. They were there to talk the Department of Agriculture out of limiting imports of Netherlands bulbs (1946 imports: $8,000,000). The department wanted to cut bulb shipments to "amounts needed for propagation." Its ostensible reason was the threat of importing contagious plant diseases along with the bulbs...
Expanding on this remark, Baldwin digressed to a criticism of American foreign policy on the ground that supporting reactionary governments rather than "middle-of-the-road" forces is a fundamental error that manufactures a previously non-existent Communist threat in those countries...
...sensibly warned the U.S. against trying to hog world shipping. Said the committee: "Many maritime nations are far more dependent [for income] on shipping than is the United States. . . . Any attempt on the part of the United States to monopolize a large part of world shipping . . . could constitute a threat to world peace," by further impoverishing some nations and drying up world trade...