Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through Foreign Office and Quai D Orsay leaks), Dulles' plan and his later warning that Chinese intervention was coming "awfully close" to direct intervention had become something else. In the British and French press, the plan, coupled with the memory of threats of "massive retaliation," grew to an "ultimatum." The British began to see visions of H-bombs dropping on London...
...hazy, hopeful dream that everything could be settled at Geneva if only nothing was done to alarm the shy Communists. To them, Dulles, with his call for "united action" before Geneva and a joint warning to Communist China, came as an insistent intruder. The jittery press talked of "ultimatum," conjured visions of H-bombs dropped on Peking unless the Chinese Communists withdrew their aid to Ho Chi Minh...
...soon as he heard the report of Juin's speech to the cavalry officers, Defense Minister Pleven delivered an ultimatum: "Either he goes or I do." The Cabinet sided with Pleven. By 1 a.m., it 1) canceled Juin's right to advise on promotions of army generals, 2) removed him from the defense council, 3) deposed him from his position as chief adviser on military strategy. The State Secretary for War personally drove to Juin's home to tell him of the decision. "He will get this message personally, at least," a minister is reported to have...
...vote of 1,128 to 1,120, students at Dartmouth College delivered an ultimatum: by 1960, fraternities must either ban from their charters all discriminatory clauses based on "race, religion, or national origin"-or get off the campus...
...that very moment Egypt's real government−the young, twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council−was holding an emergency session to decide Naguib's fate. Three days before he had delivered an ultimatum: either the R.C.C. would give him the right to veto its decisions, to appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and to promote and cashier army officers, or he would quit. Naguib felt no uneasiness; since Farouk departed in July 1952, the amiable major general had become Mr. Egypt. He put on his general's cap and went home, confident...