Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...footnote appended to your story concerning the death of Abd el Krim [Feb. 15] indicates that President Theodore Roosevelt was responsible for the famed ultimatum to Raisuli, the notorious Moroccan bandit who had captured and was holding for ransom Ion Perdicaris, a naturalized American, and his stepson, an Englishman named Varley. As a matter of fact it was the brainchild of E. M. ("Eddie") Hood, one of the most revered members of the Washington staff of the Associated Press, Hood was assigned to the State Department many years and because of his knowledge and personality became the confidant of each...
...Gaulle, naturally, paid no attention. His sense of grandeur wounded by a Brazilian ultimatum to clear French lobster boats out of Brazilian waters, he dispatched a warship to put an end to such nonsense. Brazil responded by canceling sailors' shore leaves, ordering units of its own fleet to sea. There was an uneasy stir in foreign ministries in Paris and Rio de Janeiro; among Brazilians there was talk of breaking diplomatic relations, even of asking the U.S. to invoke the Monroe Doctrine. Headlined Rio's O Dia: WAR IS IMMINENT...
...American people are kept fully informed, by so-called 'leaks' and briefings to responsible or otherwise accredited members of the press corps, of the correctness of all presidential decisions, whatever they may lead to." The rest, says the magazine, is history. Canada defies a 48-hour ultimatum to destroy all snowmaking machinery, and the Secretary of State makes his now-famous comment: "We're cheek to cheek, and I think the other fellow needs a shave." Concludes The New Yorker piece: "The 'shave' was administered-decisively, effectively, and with vigor...
...explode, McNamara has a theory that it might be limited. To achieve this, he would in effect hold Soviet cities as hostages. That is, he would have the U.S. first respond to attack by striking only at Soviet missile sites and military installations; he would then serve an ultimatum to the enemy to quit shooting or suffer destruction of its cities...
...years earlier had earned his own footnote in history. He kidnaped a U.S. citizen named Perdicaris in May 1904 and held him for ransom, thus touching off President Theodore Roosevelt's ringing ultimatum a month later to the Sultan of Morocco: "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead...