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...Secretary General Trygve Lie seemed last week to be veering toward a similar decision. On the heels of the grand jury's presentment, he sent an ultimatum to nine U.N. officers who had recently refused to answer questions before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee about possible Communist affiliation. Warned Lie: answer, or be dismissed. The nine were dismissed...
...been his classmate at Witwatersrand University. "I'll never forgive Swart," he said. Swart's ban on Negro gatherings preceded the riot. "If we leaders had been allowed to address our people, there'd have been no rioting," said Njongwe. "The government should issue an ultimatum," said one of East London's whites. "Hand over the murderers or we'll bomb the location to bits...
...Eliminate the sentimental mush or we withdraw!" Davison's ultimatum read. "The programms stands as originally submitted," ran the reply...
Flicking out his words like whisks of a schoolmaster's cane. Attlee moved what amounted to an either-or ultimatum to the Bevanites: disband and shut up, or get out of the Labor Party. And no argy-bargy about what is or is not a party-within-a-party. "You can't define an elephant," snapped Attlee, "but you can recognize one when...
...nothing sinister in the Bevan group," he said, hand on heart. "Let us put off [a vote] until the next session of [Parliament]." But the majority turned him down. By 188 votes to 51 (with 53 Laborites absent or abstaining), the Parliamentary Labor Party endorsed Attlee's ultimatum. The Bevanites would probably disband as a group, but this would hardly stop them from getting together informal-like, and thinking and talking alike...