Word: withdraw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vhen Japan and China a few days later agreed "in principle" to withdraw their forces around Shanghai (see p. 21), Secretary Stimson's friends and admirers were confident that his letter had played a potent part in lifting the war clouds, opening the way to peace...
Hoard. Biggest of all time was the gold hoard of the Bank of France last week. Already holding $2,900,000,000 worth of gold, French bankers hinted that they might withdraw another $100,000,000 belonging to them in Manhattan. With confidence in the dollar high throughout the world, U. S. bankers declared that the French could take their gold and welcome...
Truce? Peace proposals by Japan have kept pace with the Japanese Shanghai drive from the day it was launched, each Japanese bombardment being accompanied by a Japanese proposal that the Chinese peacefully withdraw. Suddenly last week Sir John Simon, British Foreign Secretary, was able to inform the League of Nations Council at Geneva that on the British flagship in Shanghai harbor Chinese and Japanese representatives had met, talked for two hours, and agreed "in principle" upon terms of Japanese and Chinese withdrawal from the Shanghai area...
...Hitler's henchmen were the candidate, a defeat would not be fatal to the Nazi party. But with the leader himself standing for election, a failure at the polls could ruin the prestige of Hitler and dissolve his following into its original elements. The Nationalists may withdraw under their leader Hugenberg, and it is conceivable that many of the Nazis will return to their old loves, the Communist and Socialist parties...
General Summerall, his soldier's pride hurt to the quick, was adamant to all civilian pleas. Not until the Citadel cadet corps, as soldier to soldier, appealed to him did he relent and withdraw his resignation...