Word: ultimatums
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...Communist camps. But the State Department, to its credit, sensed the deep moral implications of such a surrender, and took the issue to the President. Late in January, Harry Truman, fully briefed on the risks, made up his mind. Last week's U.S. statement was not an ultimatum (since it made no threats and set no time limit), but it clearly left future moves to the Chinese Communists-and future moves might well include the big push...
...Communists demanded: 1) 1,000 sheets of writing paper; 2) a "medical representative" to stand by; 3) admission of ringleaders from other compounds to Compound 76 for strategy conference. These demands were granted. Then came the real Communist ultimatum. It demanded an end of screening of prisoners and a stop to "voluntary repatriation." And it demanded...
...Ultimatum Upset. At week's end, the President himself opened the new collective bargaining talks in the White House Cabinet Room. He began with a pep talk, stressing the national need for uninterrupted steel production. But the appeal to patriotism was mixed with a sharp ultimatum: "The Government will be prepared ... to order changes in terms and conditions of employment ... if you cannot agree ... I didn't send for you just to make a speech. I sent for you for action and, gentlemen, I want...
Telling Off Stalin. It was a fine, organ-like performance. But by this point, the newsmen were anxious to get back to the breathtaking disclosure that Truman had once, by ultimatum, told off Stalin and well-nigh carried the country into war with Russia. Had the ultimatum been published before? The President said no, but it is in the record. When was the ultimatum delivered? The President first said 1945. After a whispered consultation with Press Secretary Joe Short, he agreed that maybe it was 1946. But the dates were not important, said Harry Truman. The facts were that...
Fast Backtracking. Embarrassed, Tubby explained that the President had used the word "ultimatum" in a "nontechnical, laymen's sense." The fact was that Historian Truman had his history all balled up. No U.S. troops or warships had been ordered to Trieste. There had never been an ultimatum about Iran at all. There had been a State Department note to Moscow reminding the Russians that they really should pull out of Iran as the U.N. had recommended. The date was not 1945 but March 6, 1946. And the note had been published the day after it was sent...