Word: ultimatumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Entente, had sent some 50,000 rifles and 200 machine guns to be "repaired" at the factory in Hirtenberg near Vienna where they were made (see map p. 15). France and Britain "discovered" that these arms were actually bound for Hungarian troops. They sent a sharp ultimatum to the Dollfuss Government that the arms must be either returned or destroyed, and, moreover, that the Austrian Chancellor must submit a sworn statement from the Austrian customs that the arms had recrossed the frontier, or evidence that they had been destroyed...
Chancellor Dollfuss approached the British and French Legations, asked them to withdraw the note. They refused. Promptly he summoned Parliament to extraordinary session, invited the foreign Press, read the entire secret ultimatum, and slapped it down on the rostrum in front of him with the statement that Austria, a sovereign nation, does not answer such notes at all. Four months later Engelbert Dollfuss was in Britain, a darling of the British Press & public during the World Economic Conference. But in the meantime the world had awakened to the folly and menace of Hitlerism. Today no one can pluck the capercailzie...
...Christen Bank, Northumberland. He was Foreign Secretary longer (1905-16) than any other man, was instrumental in shaping the policy which kept England friendly to France, hostile to Germany. In June 1914 he sought desperately to avert the World War, as long as possible delayed sending to Germany the ultimatum on Belgian neutrality which preceded England's declaration of war. For this he was blamed by Englishmen who felt that his hesitation encouraged Germany to strike first, by Germans who retorted that his policy of friendship emboldened France. Appointed temporary Ambassador to the U. S. in 1919. he spent...
...Robinson. One day Pastor Robinson angrily struck Businessman Ackerman, who retaliated. Businessman Ackerman held a $10,000 bond as guarantor of a mortgage on the church. To protect his investment he bid in the church at a foreclosure sale. Last week he presented his fellow Lutherans with an ultimatum: they could oust Pastor Robinson and buy Businessman Ackerman's church, or they could get out. The congregation promptly got out, taking their pastor with them and setting up a church of their own in a private house. Businessman Ackerman ruefully surveyed his Church-by-the-Sea, wondered what...
...offered appointment was virtually a command from the President which it would be lese majeste to decline. Mr. Teagle's argument: two Standard Oil men on one committee would be too many. Meeting one morning in the Carlton Hotel in Washington Mr. Teagle put to Mr. Moffett an ultimatum: refuse the appointment or quit Standard...