Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the first that Mr. Roosevelt was joining them in an elaborate political pretense. Last week many Reds were amazed when bald, able U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt marched into the Soviet Foreign Office and smacked down a note so harsh that it stopped just short of an ultimatum...
...right adjective for Chinese remained last week "peculiar." It was peculiar that entire Chinese armies should scuttle out of North China, abandoning it without resistance to a few strutting Japanese who had delivered a brash ultimatum (TIME, June 17). It was peculiar that batches of arriving Japanese troops should be waited on in Tientsin by dainty Japanese geishas who pattered about bowing and serving them ice water, tea and pink lemonade without so much as a jeer from the abject Chinese populace. Finally it was most peculiar that in Nanking withered Chinese President Lin Sen and sleek Chinese Premier Wang...
...terms such demands were equivalent to an ultimatum from Tokyo demanding that President Roosevelt disband the Democratic Party on the Pacific-Coast, appoint a Japanese puppet Governor of California and withdraw all U. S. military forces to east of the Rocky Mountains...
What, Mr. Walgreen wondered, did they teach in government courses? That night he slept little and next morning he delivered an ultimatum: Lucille must leave the University. Short while later, when he dropped his niece at the campus, she had instructions to go at once to Cobb Hall, tell the Dean all about...
Smart as he looks, the knife-nosed Emperor, having received Il Duce's ultimatum demanding salutes, indemnities and establishment of a neutral zone, sent down to the frontier of Italian Somaliland an Abyssinian mission with a Swedish and a Belgian military observer "to ensure fairness in establishing the neutral zone," ignored Il Duce's demands for salutes, indemnities