Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cunning to prevent me. ... It would be well worth while for the waterpower and fertilizer financiers who control this situation to pay $100,000,000 if thereby they can retain the endless millions which they now make through exorbitant prices. My offer is still before Congress. I shall not withdraw it. There is nothing whatever for me to explain. There is nothing that John W. Weeks can explain though he talks from now until he leaves public life. . . . Let him explain to the farmers...
Stresemann Out and In. When the Social Democrat members of the Reichstag held a caucus and voted to withdraw from the Coalition Government (Stresemann Cabinet), Chancellor Stresemann forthwith presented his and the Cabinet's resignations to Herr Friedrich Ebert, President of the German Republic. The President accepted the resignations, but charged Herr Stresemann with forming a new Cabinet. The following Cabinet was chosen: Chancellor-Dr. Gustav Stresemann. Minister of Interior-Wilhelm Sollmann. Finance-Dr. Hans Luther. Labor-Heinrich Brauns. Public Economy-Dr. Koeth. Justice-Gustav Redbruch. Reichswehr-Dr. Otto Gessler. Posts-Herr Hoefe. Communications-Rudolph Oeser. Occupied Regions-Johanness...
...most influential nation in Europe, but now France has displaced her, endangering her economic existence. Two roads back to her former supremacy lie open to her; either she may attempt to form an anti-French entente, thus restoring the Balance of power, or she may withdraw as far as possible from the European tangle and entrust herself to her colonies...
Informed circles have it that the German renunciation is in effect a compromise. France and Belgium are expected to withdraw their military forces from the Ruhr and to permit the Germans to exercise complete control. France, Belgium and Germany lost heavily in the Ruhr occupation; either side can be said to have won, except by closing a most disastrous episode in the history of Europe...
...landed at Valona and offered himself as King of Albania, saying: " I have toured the world many times, killing lions, tigers and hippopotami. I will kill your enemies just as willingly." He was forced by Germany and Austria to withdraw his offer. In the war he "offered his sword " to the Allies in turn, but without success. He even offered his steam yacht, the Mekong, to the French Government, but they refused it; the British Navy, however, accepted it. He turned his residence, the Château de Randan, into a hospital for wounded soldiers...