Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convinced that we face a great offensive immediately," said General Ma, stirring his tea. "We have lost more than 400 killed and 300 wounded since Nov. 5 and now the Japanese have handed an ultimatum to me. I know we are not strong enough to fight. But we must hold our own," cried Hero Ma with a fine flourish, "until Death...
...Conservative headquarters party workers gathered, talked of Oct. 28 as the "dead cert." election date. Opinion hardened that the hesitant P.M. must decide for an election soon. Suddenly to cap Scot MacDonald's woes came an ultimatum from Mahatma Gandhi. Impatient of delay by the Indian Round Table Conference, Mr. Gandhi said that a month of further delay because of a General Election would be intolerable, would make it necessary for him to return to India. King George, too. was said last week to be opposing an election, fearful perhaps of social upheaval...
...Great Britain two years ago when his ship was being refitted in British dockyards and had listened earnestly to the Red talk of Clyde-side Laborites. Under his orders the crews of every ship at Coquimbo locked their officers in their cabins and forced them to sign an ultimatum to the Government that the navy would not permit any reduction in salaries. Then the navy, Chile's pride, waited...
...with President Hoover's idealism. Moreover the entire French Cabinet outdid themselves in efforts to present the Hoover note in a favorable light to an angry and mistrustful Chamber of Deputies. Pa- tiently, tirelessly, Premier Pierre Laval explained and re-explained to the Chamber that President Hoover delivered no "ultimatum" to France. Repeatedly the alleged "abrupt" and "threatening" character of the President's proposals was flayed by Deputies. When Premier Laval, looking more than ever like a red-faced, perspiring butcher, soothingly observed, "Mr. Hoover has even sent Mr. Mellon to Paris," irate Deputy Franklin-Bouillon snapped: "The presence...
...last a really significant student demonstration in one of our American institutions of higher learning, and our faith in the colleges is restored. The students of St. Lawrence University, incensed at the calling off of the upper-class "padding bee" for freshmen, presented an ultimatum demanding the extension of time for parties until 2.30 a.m. and the abolition of a ruling "forbidding the parking of girls on fraternity porches during the daytime," and threatening, if these demands were not complied with, to call a strike "against all extra-curricular activities." Here are real issues and a threat of real action...