Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much has been learned of the new war since Czecho-Slovakia was conquered by it. When Nazis interfered with Polish customs officials, Foreign Minister Beck countered by closing the Polish frontier to offending Danzig concerns. When Nazis threatened to precipitate a crisis by disregarding Polish authorities, he sent an ultimatum to the Nazi Danzig Senate, demanding that interference cease-but added a conciliatory offer to negotiate, postponing a showdown. When the Senate agreed to negotiate, the frontier ban was lifted...
...Deadlocked in conference with the Senate over funds to help run the District of Columbia (payroll: 11,000 workers), with an ultimatum that the sum be not more than $5,000,000 for fiscal 1940. Virginia's Senator Glass was equally adamant on not less than $6,500,000. Washington bankers offered the District credit...
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, commander-in-chief of the U. S. Asiatic Fleet, received the ultimatum on his flagship the cruiser Augusta, anchored off Chinwangtao, some 1,500 miles North, where he had gone after a brief inspection trip to Tientsin. He replied by 1) ordering the Pillsbury to remain, 2) dispatching another destroyer, the Pope, to the spot. The British seconded the U. S. by not only keeping the Thanet at Swatow but by sending the Scout to join her. Nothing happened to the ships, nor to any of the U. S. or British nationals ashore...
...Japanese, always worried about saving "face," were left explaining that they had delivered not an ultimatum but only a polite warning. Bolder at its distance, the Nazi press in Berlin, carried a headline: U. S. Admiral Is Agitator. The British, cornered at every turn in China, frankly admired the Admiral's quick, firm action. They might also admire the U. S. State Department. For months the Japanese have practiced the clever dodge of blaming any international scrape they got into in China on the military people on the spot. The U. S. has adopted the stalemate expedient of letting...
...ultimatum from Brazil...