Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in 1946, the United Nations decided that they had seen enough of Franco's peculiar brand of savagery. His government, they said, was the essence of German and Italian fascism and the U.N. passed a resolution advising its members to withdraw their diplomatic missions. The object of this was either to tame Franco or bounce him out of Spain. It failed miserably. Great Britain, looking ahead to the day when Gibraltar would be vulnerable, signed a trade agreement with the dictator, and the United States was afraid that Spain would be consumed by Civil War if Franco left...
Like a cat smiling at a canary, Russia usually plans her shrewdest moves behind an expression of blandest virtue. A year ago she graciously offered to withdraw her occupation forces from North Korea provided the U.S. did the same in the south. In many parts of the East and elsewhere, the gesture went down as a magnanimous one. It put the U.S. on the spot. Washington could not match the Russian gesture because it knew that the Russians had fostered a puppet government in their section of Korea and backed it with a Soviet-trained and armed Korean army...
...March 16, we were informed that the government of the U.S.S.R. had decided immediately to withdraw all military advisers and instructors [from Yugoslavia] on the grounds that they were in "hostile surroundings" . . . During their entire stay, Yugoslavia's attitude toward them was not only good but actually brotherly. Therefore, we are amazed, we cannot understand and are deeply hurt...
...that happens, where will Wallace be? He could openly and honestly withdraw his candidacy, as predicted by the New York Times's Arthur Krock. But he has not been a man distinguished for moral courage. In 1934, when his Agriculture Department was purged of a group of leftists, he made a brief protest and then sat silently by. Some of the victims were his close associates.When he made charges unsubstantiated by fact against the atomic-energy policy of Bernard Baruch, he first promised Baruch a retraction, then vanished ignominiously. In crises he is apt to be simply in absentia...
Retorted the Nationalist radio: "Since their occupation of this area, Communists have methodically destroyed dikes. With floods coming they are wildly firing accusations against the Central Government . . . We hope they will show a sense of humanity and withdraw . . . This will permit water conservancy organizations to proceed with their work...