Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assassinated 16 years ago-the insurgents stepped up their pressure. De Gaulle had expected 15 luncheon guests: instead, 60 self-confident members of the Algerian Committee of Public Safety showed up to urge the general to make Soustelle his Minister for Algeria. Then, in something audaciously close to an ultimatum, Paratroop General Jacques Massu spelled out what the insurgent leaders expected of De Gaulle...
Coty's Ultimatum...
...always made his terms clear. The idol of France at one of the crises in its life, he had served an ultimatum upon his countrymen: if they wanted him to take part again in the game of French politics, they must change the rules. Specifically, they must turn their backs on France's prewar system of parliamentary supremacy and accept a chief executive empowered to make policy without constant interference from the National Assembly. When, after World War II, a majority of Frenchmen opted for the old rules, De Gaulle retired to the sidelines and sat there...
...similar defeat. But as a longtime supporter of reciprocal trade, he was also anxious to avoid the blame for gutting the Administration bill. He therefore appealed to Sam Rayburn for help in tossing the responsibility back to the Administration-and he got it in the form of the ultimatum to Commerce's Weeks...
...Coya Knutson, 45, slimmed down and modishly coiffed, was not about to leave Congress, where she had become a carping critic of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. When her intention to run again became clear, Andy Knutson backed away from his original ultimatum, said Coya could stay in Congress if only she would get rid of her handsome executive secretary. Bill Kjeldahl, 30. Said Andy: "The decisions made in Coya's office are not hers, but Kjeldahl's." But Coya Knutson was having none of that, either. Kjeldahl would stay, cried she. Her life...