Word: ultimatums
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...saved Harry Truman from a major diplomatic blunder. The President was all ready to go on the air and announce that he was sending Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow to reason with Stalin. Lovett heard about the plan, telephoned General Marshall in Paris, and confronted Truman with a joint ultimatum that both of them would resign if the plan went through...
...always insisted on his own way. Last week, after eleven years at the school, he went on trial before a governmental disciplinary committee for insubordination. For one day, with ominous patience, Boris listened to the charges laid against him. On the second day, he faced his detractors with an ultimatum: "I'll give you just five seconds to retract these charges. Otherwise, I will present you with some overwhelming evidence...
Premier Mohammed Mossadeq, his frail body supercharged with fanaticism, early last week went before the Iranian Senate and announced an ultimatum to London: he would give the British two weeks to reopen the suspended oil negotiations on Iran's old terms. Alternative: he would cancel the residence permits of 300 British technicians still hanging on at Abadan, and toss them out of the country. The Senators endorsed the Premier...
...bully boys poured into the streets. One of their leaders yelled: "We have Senators and Deputies who oppose Mossadeq. We have plenty of tahmassebis [assassins] who will settle their accounts." But at the next session, Mossadeq again failed to get a quorum, roared he would go ahead with his ultimatum anyway. To a U.S. correspondent he once more made clear his feelings: "Oil nationalization," he said, "is Iran's version of the 'Boston Tea Party...
Meanwhile the British cabinet made a sharp, stern reply to Mossadeq's ultimatum. London announced that negotiations, already "in suspense," were now "broken off," and would remain so as long as Mossadeq stayed in office. It was the first step Britain had taken to force the intractable Premier out of office...