Word: ultimatums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rare Eloquence. Hammarskjold confronted a second major crisis when Premier Lumumba served an "ultimatum," threatening that he would call in Russian troops if the U.N. did not get the Belgians out of the Congo at once. Hammarskjold offered a careful, sober report on what the U.N. police force had achieved in a brief five days and what it hoped to achieve in the immediate future. Despite Belgian charges and Congo countercharges, it was Hammarskjold's level-voiced account that carried the most weight. In the course of the action, Hammarskjold had the satisfaction of seeing the Soviet Union cast...
...week's end the Belgian government decided upon armed intervention to rescue and evacuate its citizens in the Congo, who are estimated to number 80,000. Two Belgian officials left Brussels for Léopoldville to put an ultimatum to Lumumba. He was given the choice of inviting Belgian troops to restore order. Should he refuse, the Belgians would intervene on their own initiative. As the Belgian plane took off, the paratroop reservists were assembled at collection points, ready for immediate departure, and army planes warmed up at Belgian airfields to begin the airlift. Either the Congolese government would...
Appearing on only 15 minutes' notice before a convention of schoolteachers in the Kremlin, Khrushchev climbed the rostrum to deliver a televised and broadcast warning to the U.S. to keep hands off Cuba-an ultimatum Castro has been asking him to issue. Soviet rocket tests in the Pacific, said Khrushchev, proved that Russia could accurately hit the U.S. interior. He blustered on: "Now the U.S. is not so unreachable as it once was. Speaking concretely, Soviet artillerymen can support with their rocket fire the Cuban people if aggressive forces in the Pentagon dare to start intervention against Cuba." What...
...Stevenson was under heavy pressure last week to endorse Kennedy, and one persistent Washington story had it that much of the pressure came from the Kennedy camp itself. According to one version, Stevenson has been served with a polite ultimatum by a Kennedy lieutenant: Come out for Kennedy before June 1, when an endorsement will do the most good, if you want to be Secretary of State...
...bluntly" tell the commissioners that Symonds was not "calling wolf, wolf" when he said he would not accept less than a 7% rate of return for the pipeline to pump Canadian gas to the Midwest. FPC examiners had recommended 6¼%. Corcoran said he knew that issuing an "ultimatum" to the commissioners would not have been "the polite way to do it," so he made Symonds' point "in a softer vein." Declared Corcoran: "I was invited to be a nagger, and I was. I walked down the corridors of that commission as I have always ... in broad daylight, with...