Word: withdraws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspaper had condemned the sudden 1A reclassification and drafting of a 4F negro whose legal suit for admission to the University was about to be considered by the courts. Following this stand, the Board of Regents of the school, led by powerful politician-editor Roy V. Harris, threatened to withdraw state funds from the paper if it were to continue its stand...
...Franklin admitted that all of them together would not make one "Model Worker." But Mao was in a serious mood. ("He would make an outstanding labor negotiator," said Earn-shaw.) Blandly, he laid on the line his terms for coexistence. He wanted Attlee to ask the U.S. to 1) withdraw the U.S. Seventh Fleet and abandon its support of Chiang; 2) cease arming Japan; 3) cease arming Germany...
...bear" spoke theatrically in his deep voice. "I have read the documents with anguish," he rumbled. "No one can say that Great Britain is engaged to stand by our side. That alone would be enough to make me reject EDC . . . The treaty does not give France the right to withdraw from the community as it does Germany. By leaving Germany freedom of action, we offer her the possibility of negotiating with Russia, who has much to trade." Concluded Herriot: "The treaty, and I say this at the end of my life, would be the end of France...
...later Hong Kong press conference, free at last of his chaperon Phillips, Attlee was a little more talkative. He described with satisfaction his answer to Red Boss Mao, who had urged him to use his influence to withdraw all U.S. military aid from Asia and Germany (TIME, Sept. 6). He, in turn, had urged Mao to do what he could to curb the rampant militarism and intolerance that he had noticed in Soviet Russia, "the most heavily armed country in the world." Attlee cited this exchange as if it were proof of his standing up to the Reds, whereas...
...demands were fourfold and explosive: 1) America must withdraw the Seventh Fleet from the Formosa Strait; 2) America must cease arming Japan; 3) America must not be permitted to arm Western Germany; 4) Britain's Labor Party must "arrange a more reasonable foreign policy along such lines." Thus, after ten days of "bottoms-up" and rice-wine toasts to the Queen, Red China now showed the lotus-tour Laborites its hand: it hoped to enlist British Socialism -which got more popular votes than Churchill's Conservatism in the 1951 general election-in its campaign to "unify" Asia. Privately...