Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extra military supplies. Bourges-Maunoury rushed over to the Hotel Matignon, say the Brombergers, bringing to Premier Guy Mollet "on a silver platter the long-awaited occasion for intervention in Egypt." One interesting statement by the Brombergers that might salve some British consciences: until just before the Anglo-French ultimatum in Egypt, only Eden and Queen Elizabeth were privy to the plot. On Oct. 16, at the famous Paris meeting of Eden and Mollet, "Operation Mousquetaire" was decided on, but not until the French had reluctantly agreed to accept Eden's "embarrassing judicial fiction that the intervention was aimed...
...though the New York Times called Nasser's terms an "absurd ultimatum," the Western powers seemed to hold out little real hope of extracting any major concessions: they might, in return for making the arrangement two-way instead of unilateral, firm up the contractual status of the agreement. But Nasser no longer faced the threat of armed attack by Britain or France, and Britain's Foreign Office acknowledged privately that any attempt at economic boycott could not be long maintained in the face of bitter opposition from shipping companies watching their competitors steam through the canal...
After the Israelis refused to answer these questions which Jerusalem newspapers termed "an ultimatum," the Arab-Asian bloc this week moved to debate sanctions against Israel. Washington's hopes that Ben-Gurion would accept private U.S. assurances of support arid pull out gave way to pessimism; U.S. officials predicted that Israel's holdout would damage its own long-term self-interest...
Forty-eight hours after he moved up to manage Esso's sprawling oil refinery at Bayonne, N.J. on New Year's Day, mild-mannered Dr. David F. Edwards, 54, sent the city an ultimatum. Bayonne, which was threatening to raise Esso's taxes another $400,000 a year, must give up any idea of increased taxes, instead cut its operating budget by 10% within two weeks. If it did not, Esso would cancel its $2,000,000 modernization program at the Bayonne plant, and very likely move out altogether-just as Tidewater Oil Co. did two years...
...biggest headache was the coal miners. Less than half of Hungary's 100,000 miners were at work, and coal production was down an estimated 70%. Last week those coal miners who had not either fled or fallen in the fighting sent Kadar a spunky, three-point ultimatum demanding 1) his immediate resignation, 2) withdrawal of Soviet forces to their barracks, 3) free elections...