Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue, Soviet Ambassador Nikita Ryzhov sought an audience with Foreign Minister Feridun Erkin, confronted him with a blunt demand for immediate withdrawal of U.S. missiles and NATO installations in Turkey. Premier Ismet Inonu himself drafted the note of rejection. Next Ryzhov arrived with a second, blunter ultimatum: Withdraw the U.S. bases or the Soviet Union will put Turkey's cities first on the list for annihilation if war comes. "If you don't think we are ready to make war over Cuba, you are mistaken," added Ryzhov. Reportedly, Premier Inonu's response to the nuclear threat...
...this year, possibly to relax from the Algerian crisis and other serious matters, Charles de Gaulle gave Monaco six months to reform its tax laws or lose its special status (though Monaco is theoretically sovereign, it exists as a privileged protectorate of France, free of customs duties). When the ultimatum expired fortnight ago, Paris sent customs agents to set up barriers at the border that Novelist Colette once described as the frontier of flowers. Mostly, the revenuers darted about in mobile vans and on motorcycles, making nuisances of themselves, which was the idea. "Berlin has its wall of shame," complained...
...naive to hope that after encouraging Communist bloc aid, both military and economic, for over two years, and after ignoring specific United States warnings about military activity, the Castro government will suddenly accept an American ultimatum to get rid of the Russians...
...dangerous to delay action in the Caribbean in the hope of proving once and for all that Cuba is subservient to Moscow, if that delay might give the Russians the impression that we don't really mean what we say. Offering "rapprochement" in the form of a diplomatic ultimatum would not only seem hypocritical to both Cuba and the Soviet Union, but could also involve them in a serious miscalculation of American willingness to honor stated commitments...
...Cuban government was not even offered an ultimatum. Mr. Kennedy can still issue the "do this," without which his "or else" makes no sense...