Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack of injureis spoiled the whole afternoon for Dick Harlow yesterday. Captain Franny Lee, Tom Gardiner, Ted Lyman, Jim Grunig, and Dick Row all had to withdraw from scrimmage early, and just how serious a blow this is will not be known until the doctors make definite statements today...
...years of mutual shoving, glowering, apologizing and more shoving had put the U.S. and Japan dangerously close to war. It did not look last week as if Admiral Nomura or anyone else could make either side withdraw cleanly and permanently from the brink. The best formula the Admiral could hope to achieve would be a minor deal which would freeze both sides' positions for as long as possible...
...nation. Ambassador Nomura was empowered, according to this report, to demand: i) U.S.-British recognition of Manchukuo; 2) U.S.-British recognition of Japan's special position in North China. In return for this Japan would: 3) make peace with Chiang Kai-shek on a basis of American mediation, withdraw from all China south of the Yellow River and west of the Peking-Nanking line; 4) withdraw from South China and Indo-China; 5) abandon the southward drive. Nor was this all. Am bassador Nomura further was to seek restoration of normal U.S. -Japanese trade relations, Anglo-American recognition...
...Nazi forces would withdraw from western Europe. The bombing of Britain would stop...
...Washington dapper Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles telephoned equally dapper Ambassador Felipe Espil of Argentina and Brazilian Ambassador Carlos Martins. The three went into a huddle, emerged with a stopgap proposal: Peru and Ecuador should each withdraw 15 kilometers (9½ mi.) from their present frontier stations, cease hostilities, submit their dispute once more to Argentine-Brazilian-U.S. mediation...