Word: ultimata
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...blamed the administrations's strategies for "getting us into the extremely difficult position of issuing ultimata which we cannot back...
...letter to neutralist Presidents Keita of Mali and Sukarno of Indonesia (see following story), President Kennedy warned that "we do not intend to enter into negotiations under ultimata or threats. It is also clear that we do not propose to discuss either abdication of our responsibility or renunciation of the modalities for carrying out those responsibilities . . . We are prepared to meet force with force if it is used against us." Later, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov that any further unilateral action in Berlin by the Russians and the East Germans would obliterate hope for rational...
Should the Russians win the race and build the first H-bomb, he added, they might decide that they did not even have to use it. They might say: " 'We will build these bombs and issue ultimata to the western countries, and the millenium of Communism will be with us immediately...
Presently M. Briand gave an assurance that on the morrow, after consulting his political colleagues in Paris by wire, he would do what France has never done before : propose a definite date for the evacuation. Before M. Briand's morrow dawned fresh hurling of ultimata back and forth in the financial section of the Conference (see below) had so incensed French public opinion that the French Prime Minister was obliged to retreat. Calling personally on Dr. Stresemann he explained that "pour le moment, I can get no date to announce...