Word: ultimatums
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...Ultimatum. The meeting was called, Simbolon told TIME Correspondent James Bell last week, because the Djakarta government had ignored an earlier demand from the colonels made last September, asking for an anti-Communist government of democracy, constitutionality, law and order. After two weeks of discussion, the conferees decided on their tactics. They would form a counter-government headed by Sjafruddin. and send an ultimatum to Acting President Sartono, demanding that he dismiss the "unconstitutional" government of Premier Djuanda and ask former Vice President Mohammed Hatta to form a national government of antiCommunists...
...Sartono rejected the ultimatum, the emergency government would become a permanent counter-government which would seek recognition from other powers as the legitimate government of all Indonesia, on the ground that the Djuanda government is actually challenged almost everywhere in Indonesia except in Java, and that it has never been invested by Parliament. Said one Padang official: "We fought for a country based on Pantja Sila [the Five Principles of belief in God, nationalism, humanitarianism, social justice and democracy]. Did we do this just to turn the country over to Communists as they are doing in Djakarta...
Simbolon is sure that if Djakarta defies their ultimatum, central government warplanes may soon be sent to bomb and strafe their headquarters. "We've penetrated the Djakarta government," says Simbolon calmly, "and we know that the Cabinet has decided to take military action against us at the end of February. By that time the government will have received four frigates from Italy and some arms from the Communist countries...
...they dispersed last week, the conferees had not agreed on when and how the ultimatum should be delivered. Chief reason: some of the revolutionaries, military and civilian alike, want to give Sukarno a last chance...
...cold afternoon in February 1945, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky buzzed into Bucharest, bustled over to the palace of 24-year-old King Michael and banged out a desk-thumping ultimatum: fire the non-Communist government, install a pro-Communist regime-or sovereign Rumania would cease to exist. With Soviet troops in control of the country and no hope of help from Britain or the U.S., young Michael capitulated. The Kremlin's choice as Premier: Plowman Groza. A year later Groza helped the Communists undo the promises of Yalta for free elections by arranging an elaborately rigged election which...