Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Luckily or unluckily the average newly-hatched college graduate finds what serves for a purpose, temporarily at least, thrust at him on the same terms which faced the milleniumite stage director, the ultimatum of "work or starve". His first job and his hardest is the job of finding a job which he can develop and which will develop him. Until he succeeds, his purpose will be lost to sight, and the vision of a kingdom round the corner dance instead before his eyes...
There is no space here to enter into the various ramifications that have brought this change to pass. From the discovery of a secret Russo-German treaty, ultimatum, reply, charge of ambiguity, counter-reply, and second ultimatum have followed "fast and ever faster," until the whole procedure is now entangled in a maze of words and assumed misunderstandings. And more than once has the disruption of the entire gathering been threatened. The atmosphere at Genoa is as calmly deliberative as must have been that in the vicinity of the Kilkenhy cats whose talls were knotted together. In a final effort...
Chancellor Wirth has come before the Reichstag with plain-spoken declarations that have the air of an ultimatum. Germany, he says must have a complete moratorium for the coming year, and a foreign loan as well if she is to being to meet her obligations for 1922. As to the recent action of the Allied Reparations Committee, which has demanded additional taxes of sixty billion marks and Allied control of German finances, he declares arbitrarily that no government will be formed to meet those conditions. The Chancellor's speech was greeted in the Reichstag with cheers...
...unfair treatment of foreign merchants and deliberate cheating of the Chinese tax officials the only significant trade in Manchuria at present in Japanese trade. Her officially acknowledged ambitions are clearly revealed in Group H of the notorious Twenty-One. Demands prescribed to China in 1915, with an ultimatum...
...Simons has admitted, both parties have until now been talking "through windows,"--parading their oratory for the benefit of the public. The reply to be made today to the Allied ultimatum will doubtless present Germany's "real offer." The value of frank discussion has been demonstrated many, times in the course of the peace negotiations. It is high time the London delegates got down to straightforward proposals...