Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along the macadam road from Ismailia. Egyptian Vampires and MIGs came in to cover the reinforcements, fell into battle with Israeli fighters. By late in the day, it was still a battle. The Egyptians were fighting with more skill and courage than in the 1948 fiasco. Then came the ultimatum from Britain and France set to expire at 4:30 the next morning. So Egypt had three enemies to contend with instead...
WITHIN 24 hours after Israel invaded Egypt, Britain and France joined in an ultimatum to Egypt and Israel?and then began to bomb Cairo...
...Eisen hower's statement, State Department officials concluded that Britain considered the Tripartite Agreement a dead letter. That afternoon Dulles summoned British and French diplomats to get their cooperation in calling an early emergency meeting of the Security Council. They stalled. Apparently they had orders to delay until the ultimatum could be delivered next...
...British were not interested either in halting the Israeli attack or in branding the Israelis as aggressors. In London, Lloyd summoned U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich early Tuesday morning to urge that the U.S. resolution omit any reference to aggression. Significantly, though Britain and France were going to deliver an ultimatum to Egypt that day, Lloyd said nothing to Aldrich about Britain's intent...
According to Plan. At 4:30 p.m. British time (11:30 a.m. Washington time), Eden announced the ultimatum?an ultimatum that demanded in effect that Egypt withdraw 100 miles from its own frontiers and accept British-French occupation of the Canal Zone on the ground that the British and French had to protect the canal from the Israelis (they then proceeded to bomb not the Israelis but the Egyptians). Neither the U.S. nor the Commonwealth was notified until 15 minutes later. The President of the U.S. learned of the ultimatum in Jacksonville, Fla. by news ticker...