Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news broke after an emergency meeting between the President, Dean of Students William D'O Lippincott, Dean of the College Francis B. reason was given for the ultimatum, which caused all of the gentlemen to miss part of the opening quarter...
...Ultimatum. The idea of tying Bonn's sovereignty to the EDC treaty had been France's in the first place, designed to bring about German rearmament without a revival of German militarism. Bonn would get self-government only by simultaneously agreeing to put its armed forces under supranational command. But while Bonn gave its assent, France fiddled with its approval, and left Chancellor Konrad Adenauer exposed to increasingly dangerous attacks at home for failing to win sovereignty for his people...
...some Frenchmen the new proposal was another ultimatum to force French approval of EDC, but Sir Winston soothingly indicated that if France would only join in granting West German sovereignty, the U.S. and Britain would be willing to forget rearming Germany "for the time being." (And of course until Aug. 15, France still has the option of ratifying EDC, in which case the linked treaties would simultaneously go into effect...
Conciliation in Cairo last week brought discord in London. Tory backbenchers were up in arms. Led by the mustachioed military figure of Captain Charles Waterhouse, 41 Tories delivered an ultimatum: they would split the Tory Party over a Suez settlement...
...asked the officers to put their questions in writing, then asked Sigui: "By the way, colonel, what is your position in this matter?" Said Sigui: "I am anti-Communist." Next day Arbenz dismissed him from command. The other officers elaborately denied that they had given Arbenz anything like an ultimatum to break with the Reds...