Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British battleships Warspite and Valiant, last week, steaming full speed ahead from the Empire naval base at Malta toward the Egyptian ports of Alexandria and Port Said. Beside the ponderous battleships, paced three swift cruisers, keen Empire dogs of war. Smoke belched. Spume flew. Meanwhile a good old fashioned ultimatum was being cabled by the potent Government of His Britannic Majesty to the puny Egyptian Cabinet of puppet King Fuad...
...Egyptian Parliament, greatly daring, had brought the ultimatum upon itself by approving the so-called Public Assemblies Bill. Under that innocuous title is cloaked a measure which would severely curtail the police power to maintain order during public meetings, which, in Egypt, turn very easily into anti-British race riots. Therefore the London ultimatum to Cairo, last week, informed Egyptian Prime Minister Nahass Pasha that he must "immediately . . . prevent the Public Assemblies Bill from becoming law," or else expect "His Britannic Majesty's Government to consider themselves free to take such action as the situation may seem to them...
Paradoxically the drafter of Britain's ultimatum and threat to intervene was Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain who recently received a Nobel Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). In the House of Commons, last week, Sir Austen bared his imperfect teeth in a wolfish smile when Opposition back benchers shouted that he was "Bullying Egypt!" With the crisis safely passed, however, he beamingly announced that Empire sea hounds Warspite and Valiant had been ordered back to their kennel at Malta...
Tomorrow the ultimatum of the British government to the Prime Minister of Egypt expires. If by seven o'clock steps have not been taken to stop the passage through the Egyptian legislature of the Assemblies Bill the bill which practically guarantees the Egyptian enemies of Britain free speech--the British government will take "such action as it sees fit." The British warships that have set sail from Malta with their destination unrevealed seem to show that Britain is anticipating serious trouble...
Congressmen do their hardest, most important work off the floor. The real storm centre of Flood Control last week, was in the House Committee room where the irresistible legislative urge was encountering the immovable Coolidge ultimatum (see p. 8). On the floor of the House, pending the Bill's actual reading, the debate was general. It became more general when stentorian Mr. Schafer of Wisconsin arose and pointing his large finger at a puffy, untidy figure in one of the back seats, demanded to know what he was doing there...