Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next Iran's elderly Premier, Ebrahim Hakimi, pointed up the growing crisis by resigning. He had pleaded in vain with the Russians to take the Red Army out of the northern parts of his country, withdraw their support from the rebel government that had sprung up in Russian-occupied Azerbaijan...
...British agreed not to withdraw their troops from Indonesia but to clear an area sizable enough to impress the nationalists and give the Dutch a base from which to negotiate. The Dutch agreed to initiate talks with the moderate nationalists, to pay a higher political price for order in their Empire. Dr. Van Mook prepared to return immediately to the trouble zone...
...more interested in giving supplies to Chiang to fight the Communists than he was in bringing Chiang and the Communists to unity; he had committed the U.S. to armed intervention. De Lacy's conclusion: the U.S. should express regret to China that she was a house divided and withdraw its forces...
Stolidly, in the face of the President's confidence, he asked to be allowed to play safe, to withdraw the fleet from Pearl Harbor, base it on the Pacific Coast, and use it to defend the Western Hemisphere...
...Unless the U.S. was prepared immediately to state a strong policy in support of Chinese unification under Generalissimo Chiang, and to leave in China the forces necessary to execute this policy, it should withdraw from China...