Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aroused quick opposition in Paris. The same French government which had just accepted $385,000,000 in U.S. aid to "break up and destroy the regular enemy forces in Indo-China" immediately sought, in indignation, a quick exit from the fight by threatening to withdraw if the Viet-Namese continued to seek independence instead of throwing their entire strength against the Communists. Ho Chi Minh must have smiled when his enemy went on to announce hopefully that "it would accept a peaceful settlement" in the struggle for Indo-China...
...that while he was Secretary of State he had personally discussed the FBI report with Truman on Feb. 6, 1946, and that the President was familiar with it. A memorandum in State Department files confirmed Byrnes's memory. Having read the FBI report, Byrnes had urged Truman to withdraw his nomination of White for the Monetary Fund post. After a hurried check with the Senate, said Byrnes, Truman learned that White had been confirmed that afternoon. Byrnes had three solutions to offer...
...call in White, confront him with the FBI report and force him to withdraw...
...their capacity for capriciousness in a more serious way. When the House of Commons was all but empty. Tory Backbencher Hugh Linstead tried to forward a concern of his own and moved a prayer* against the government's easing of restrictions on imported glassware. Later Linstead tried to withdraw the motion, but the Laborites seized on the absence of his fellow Tories to force a vote. Not expecting any important business to come up, most of the Tories had scattered far & wide, and many of them had been careless about being paired in their absence (Churchill paired with Opposition...
...Georgia State Board of Regents has threatened to withdraw state funds from the University of Georgia student newspaper if the student editors continued attacking racial segregation in the school system...