Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he hoped to relax tensions-and, in a way that was probably not on his agenda, he had. In three days of secret talks with President Eisenhower at Camp David, Maryland (see The Presidency), he had given what the U.S. took to be a commitment to lift the ultimatum on West Berlin that he had invoked last November...
...peace we want and the peace the world needs is not the peace of surrender, but the peace of justice; not peace by ultimatum, but peace by negotiation...
...fact that one of us may have a bigger bomb, a faster plane or a more powerful rocket than the other at any particular time no longer adds up to an advantage. No nation in the world today is strong enough to issue an ultimatum to another without running the risk of destruction...
...strong. In some ways you are stronger, but in other ways we might be stronger. We are both so strong, not only in weapons but also in will and spirit, that neither should ever put the other in a position where he faces in effect an ultimatum...
...exhibition with Nixon and Khrushchev clustered around the debaters. "I hope the Prime Minister has understood all the implications of what I said," Nixon went on. with an oblique reference to Berlin. "What I mean is that the moment we place either one of these powerful nations, through an ultimatum, in a position where it has no choice but to accept dictation or fight, then you are playing with the most destructive force in the world...