Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bruce, instead of Mayer, as was expected, opened the rebuttal for Harvard. He said that England did not bring on the war, since the Transvaal issued an ultimatum which no nation could stand, and since the condition of two-thirds of the people in the Transvaal was such as to bring on war in any case. There is no probability of a more peaceful attitude toward the Uitlanders in future, because the younger Boers are more hostile to them than the older men. The change was bound to come, and would have come by a revolution, if England...
...were all refused, and the alternative suggestion made by President Kruger was so hampered by conditions as to be impossible of acceptance. Mr. Chamberlin's reply to this suggestion was by no means mild, and from this time on negotiations became more and more strained until President Kruger's ultimatum precipitated...
...being united, and it would be a bold man who would venture now to rely on the country for support of any extremen position, and however determined Mr. Roosevelt himself may be he would no doubt admit that public opinion must be proved to be very united if an ultimatum of war is to be pushed. People by no means agree upon the original scope of the Monroe doctrine. That, perhaps is not of vital importance, for the doctrine henceforth is to be exactly what we now choose to make it; but when we came to this question the uncertainty...
...rowing room in the Carey Building was only a preparatory step to excluding all news of the crew from the daily papers and the college world. But news still leaked out from those who rowed on the crew until even such communications were forbidden peremptorily. Mr. Watson's ultimatum was that no news of the crew should be printed unless with his direct consent...