Word: ultimatums
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...American negotiators, whose stated aim at Geneva is to "make unnecessary" our forthcoming tests, can hardly expect the Soviets to sign under the pressure of an ultimatum, and whether President Kennedy intended "nuclear blackmail" or not, the timing of his announcement will not make the Russians soften their objections to an elaborate inspection system...
...President's decision to resume testing should not couched as an ultimatum; the date of resumption should be left flexible insofar as tangible progress, in the opinion of the U.S. negotiators, is being made...
...June 1961 came the Vienna meeting between Khrushchev and President Kennedy; Khrushchev used the occasion to lay down anew his ultimatum about Berlin...
Arturo Frondizi, who had also balked at voting Castro out of the hemisphere, ran into an ultimatum from his country's powerful and conservative military men. In the end he was forced to make Argentina the 14th hemisphere nation to break diplomatic relations with Cuba...
...abroad, to play the neutral. Maneuvering for time, he went before the nation to make an angry speech defending Argentina's-and his own-independence in world affairs. If Frondizi expected an outburst of public support, he did not get it. When the military men backed up their ultimatum by boycotting a presidential state dinner for Belgium's visiting ex-King Leopold, Frondizi bowed to the inevitable. The announcement made no bones about the reason: "Considering the resolutions voted [at Punta del Este], especially the sixth,* which obtained a two-thirds vote and is causing repercussions in inter...