Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nothing is taught at Harvard that cannot be learned elsewhere in half the time that Harvard takes to teach it." With such an ultimatum does that worthy journal, the Boston Advertiser, place ashes upon the grave of any over-sanguine faith in Harvard University...
...their occupation of Tiensin, the Manchurian troops under the rebellious Chang have won a decided advantage in the first phase of their struggle with the Peking government. This development was foreshadowed last week when the national troops acceded to the ultimatum of the foreign powers and lifted their defensive blockade on the river Chang was thus enabled to resume his advance and his adversaries were forced to withdraw before his superior forces...
Since the fall of Tiensin was largely due to this ultimatum, the interference of the powers with the internal affairs of China is significant. For although the desultory civil was which has broken out with the Spring weather seems to be merely the rivalry of ambitious generals for control of the government, the hegemony of the Far East hinges on its result. It is no secret that the present government is being subsidized by Moscow in order to cloak communistic propaganda directed at the foreign powers who have a foothold there. In an effort to counteract the Soviet influence, Japan...
...profess to see "an ironhanded statesman" in the aged Feldmarschall, reported that he summoned the leaders of the Centre parties to him and "commanded" them to settle their internal differences "within four hours" and forthwith to support Dr. Luther. Observers not seeking "copy," however, widely considered the "four-hour ultimatum" a piece of political stage business, designed to enhance the prestige of "the great German figurehead." They asserted that the following Cabinet, officially sworn in late in the week, represents merely the result of six weeks of inter-party dickering...
...President's ultimatum had more than a warlike reputation to support it. Persistent rumors of a dictatorship under Chancellor Luther, Foreign Minister Stresemann, and Dr. Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, expedited the truce of warring factions. A rasping voice and a hint of a Roman triumvirate drove the Republican parties to agree that they might preserve their right to disagree...