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When Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy and his team reached Kaesong for the first session, they found the city taken over by armed Communists. By propaganda and picture, the Reds represented themselves as victors. Ridgway squelched that with an ultimatum; neutralize Kaesong or no more truce talks. The Reds succumbed. After some further jockeying for face, which Ridgway won hands down, the delegates got on to formulate an agenda...
...Ultimatum. As governor, Fine continues to run Luzerne County almost as closely as before. He will call his lieutenants several times a day, sometimes at 7:30 in the morning, sometimes at 1:30 at night, and drop in for unexpected inspections. He continues to supervise Luzerne County patronage, and often angers the regulars by handing jobs to defeated political enemies as consolation prizes. He always likes to play his cards close to the chest: he rarely announces a slate of candidates until the last possible minute of the last...
News of the impending ultimatum leaked out, and Fine heard about it. When two of the county leaders appeared to deliver it, Fine was ready. No one knows just what he told them. The gist: he flatly refused to commit himself for the time being. Once again, John Fine stretched without breaking...
...wide-ranging Estes Kefauver, the week's mission was primarily to edge his way back to the party line. In a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, he announced that he had been "in error" when he recently proposed a time-limit ultimatum to the Communists in Korea. He explained that he had been enlightened by General Ridgway's report that the United Nations lacked the strength to make it stick. Another possible explanation: Kefauver's recent chat with Harry Truman. Two days later he headed back to the hustings in his chartered Lockheed Lodestar...
...Assembly went a Rhee ultimatum: adopt his proposals for presidential elections by the people (instead of by the Assembly as the constitution provides) or face dissolution. Said Rhee: "I may have to be obedient to the people . . . And the question will be very easily settled." Rhee's police still hold eleven opposition Assemblymen incommunicado...