Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Face set & serious, he told the assembled reporters that the country was in one of its greatest emergencies. In 1945, he said, it faced similar emergencies. In fact, he had personally sent an ultimatum to the head of the Soviet Union, ordering the Russians to get out of Iran. The Russians had done so, said the President, because the U.S. still had the wartime muscle to back up its demand. A little later, Yugoslavia decided to take Trieste. The President had sent for General Eisenhower and General Marshall and the Navy; he had ordered the Mediterranean fleet into the Adriatic...
Telling Off Stalin. It was a fine, organ-like performance. But by this point, the newsmen were anxious to get back to the breathtaking disclosure that Truman had once, by ultimatum, told off Stalin and well-nigh carried the country into war with Russia. Had the ultimatum been published before? The President said no, but it is in the record. When was the ultimatum delivered? The President first said 1945. After a whispered consultation with Press Secretary Joe Short, he agreed that maybe it was 1946. But the dates were not important, said Harry Truman. The facts were that...
...feet or live on your knees." Strauss's reply: "We'll fight like tigers." At Cape Town's City Hall, he told a cheering crowd that his United Party had formed a single "democratic front" with Torch Commando and the Labor Party. Then he issued an ultimatum: "If the government creates anarchy [by ignoring the court], the people will meet force with force...
Faced with this ultimatum, Aller gave in last week. Announced the board of directors: the sale of Washington Water Power to the P.U.D.s is off. Instead, the stock will be distributed to American Power stockholders, and Washington Water Power will remain in private hands. The reversal was a signal victory for Washington Water Power's President Kinsey Robinson, who had opposed the sale right along. And it was the first big victory in years that private power has won in the Northwest...
...offensive against the Reds was led by a rugged, fiery Corsican, Pierre Ferri-Pisani, now 50. He and Brown had met in-Marseille, become friends. With Brown's help, Ferri-Pisani found "men brave enough," went to Communist headquarters in Marseille and delivered an ultimatum: "If there is any trouble on the docks, we will not bother with the men you send to cause it. No, within 48 hours we will ask you to pay personally." Red bosses ran for police protection. The first Communist who tried to fire Ferri-Pisani's men was chucked into the harbor...