Word: ultimatumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shah of Persia, dynamic, self-made Reza Pahlevi, onetime Cossack trooper, Britain last year hurled an oily ultimatum...
...British Government are controlling shareholders of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., which had a concession to exploit Persia's oil fields. Dissatisfied with the royalties Persia was getting, her Shah canceled the concession (TIME, Dec. 12). The British ultimatum gave the Shah until Dec. 15 to reinstate...
...decline to answer!" snapped the British Government's spokesman, but tough Reza Shah Pahlevi's morale was not shaken. He ignored Britain's ultimatum, let Dec. 15 pass, sent his Minister of Justice speeding to Geneva where, most fortunately, the League Council told off famed Dr. Eduard Benes, perennial Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," to try to calm the Persians and the British...
...indispensable into one crisp sentence, President Alessandri said soon after his election: "Foreign companies in Chile which worked full time when returns were good must understand that they cannot consider discharging their Chilean employees now that times are bad!" Last week Chile's "Lion" made clear that this ultimatum stands. From a practical standpoint it has dominated for the past few months relations between such super-corporations as the Guggenheim nitrate colossus Cosach and the Chilean Government. Speaking off the record, Cosach President Whelpley is understood to have said recently: "If it were not for public considerations we should...
...American consortium" would "buy Persian products for American consumption" and "undertake a general program of industrialization for Persia." In Manhattan a Morgan partner flatly said that he "knew of no basis" for such reports, but by that time the House of Commons was seething over a so-called British ultimatum to Persia...