Word: ultimatums
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...Communists, and a few newspapermen in too much of a hurry for a headline, called Dulles' message a 75-day "ultimatum." Most of the Secretary's audience appeared willing to take it for what it was meant to be-a helpful reminder of the facts of life in the U.S. "This visit," suggested Germany's Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, "shows [all] nations with brutal clarity that it no longer suffices to pucker one's lips. We now must whistle...
...wounded. Was back in Washington on a special mission when his 101st was surrounded at Bastogne. Flew back to Europe, then jeeped into Bastogne in time to lead the division through the last month of the Battle of the Bulge, but too late to receive the Nazi surrender ultimatum, which Acting Division Commander Tony McAuliffe answered with the word "Nuts." (Last week's Pentagon rumor: McAuliffe would fall heir to the job Taylor was vacating-Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations & Administration...
Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker has been so hard pressed for money that early last month it presented its readers with an ultimatum: unless subscribers came across with a full $50,000 in contributions, the paper would have to fold (TIME, Dec. 15). This week the Worker triumphantly announced that it had reached its goal. Where the Worker got the money was still a mystery. Even by its own bookkeeping, the donations had run as low as $3,600 a week, instead of the $6,000 a week the paper said it ".must receive" to reach $50,000. Furthermore...
...semiliterate ex-Turkish functionary whom the French in 1943 hand-picked as their stooge. For him now to oppose proffered French "reforms" as insufficient they regard as rank ingratitude. Last week, no longer finicky about U.N. reaction, France's Cabinet dispatched a "stern and clear" ultimatum to the Bey: capitulate or suffer unspecified consequences, possibly deposition from his million-dollar job. Within 48 hours, the Bey capitulated...
...Chronicle. The paper's owners, he explained, refused to go along with his Theory of Foresight. Fortnight ago, as the Chronicle dipped into the red, the owners fired 37 staffers while Smith was out of town. As soon as he heard the news, he hustled back with an ultimatum that either he would be consulted about such changes or he would leave. The feeling in the front office seemed to be that he had better leave...