Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop handed Lithuania's Foreign Minister Juozas Urbsys an ultimatum (in Berlin, as always), accompanied with the usual threats of invasion. Before long Foreign Minister Urbsys delivered Lithuania's acquiescence, agreed to sign a non-agression treaty which makes Lithuania a buffer State between the Reich and Poland and the Baltic nations...
...rich oil fields and wheat lands of the Kingdom of Rumania. Scarcely had the Aggrandizer got to Vienna on his swing around the new empire before the Rumanian Minister in London, Viorel Teleas, reported to Foreign Secretary Lord Hali fax that Germany had served Rumania an "economic ultimatum." Its gist: trade all Rumanian oil and wheat for German manufactured goods or expect the consequences...
Much confusion resulted from reports of the ultimatum, but at week's end the main results were that Rumania agreed to give Germany temporarily a greater share of her trade while refusing to surrender any political rights. Discussions were described as "progressing amicably," which probably meant that Rumania would be as tractable as she thought necessary, would stanchly refuse to give in if backed by Britain and France. Meanwhile, just in case of trouble, King Carol ordered some 500,000 soldiers to man Rumania's western frontiers...
...Pilsudski, for nine years revered dictator of Poland. When Herr Hitler first came to power Marshal Pilsudski proposed to France a joint "preventive" war against Germany. The French laughed at the suggestion. On his own hook the Marshal then got in contact with Führer Hitler, delivered an ultimatum which, in effect, said: "Do you want war or peace? If war, our Army marches tomorrow morning. If peace, sign here...
International News Service correspondents at Shanghai quoted Japanese "circles" as saying that Führer Adolf Hitler had assured Japan that he would serve Britain with an ultimatum-on March 6. The implication was that Japan was preparing for that day, too, probably with a squeeze on Russia...