Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious the crisis was. (Behind the closed doors Britain's bear-like [250 Ibs.] Ernest Bevin threatened to leave the room and to make Britain leave the Council. They did not know that Russia's sharp, suave Andrei Yanuarevich Vishinsky retorted that he was all ready to withdraw from the Council if the Soviet Union's honor and dignity were further impugned...
...party. This week they came back to the Council forge to hammer out understanding. Vishinsky called Bevin's reference to Communist propaganda "a cold breath of the unhappy past." Bevin used the word "lie." Finally Russia offered to drop her demand for Council action if Britain would withdraw her troops from Greece as soon as possible...
...each morning at 6 a.m. 'for an hour's study, impressed the British as a "man of distinction." In London Mikolajczyk's arguments with dynamic Premier General Wladyslaw Sikorski brought out his special qualities. Slow, verbose Mikolajczyk always lost the verbal bouts to Sikorski. Mikolajczyk would withdraw in confusion, then write a laborious answer weighted with political idealism. Sikorski would read it, then sharply ask: "Well, what do you want to do about it?" Mikolajczyk always stuck to his guns...
...year that he would run for the Presidency of the Philippines, many an island politico winked significantly over his cigar. There is but one Philippine party, the Nacionalistas. According to all the rules of island politics, Roxas would soon make a deal with aging President Sergio Osmeña, withdraw in the old man's favor...
...case indirectly. The Iranian Majlis (Parliament) had chosen a new Premier, 65-year-old Ahmed Qavam, by a vote of 52-to-51. In spite (or because) of his large holdings in Azerbaijan, Qavam is Iran's most pro-Soviet politician. At any time he might withdraw the Iranian Appeal...