Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sent an ultimatum to Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia demanding redress and satisfaction over the capture and killing of U.S. airmen...
...Forty-eight Hours. The note ridiculed the Yugoslav contention that the shootings were "accidental." It demanded the immediate release and safe conduct to the border of all U.S. plane occupants still alive and permission for them to be interviewed by a U.S. representative. The ultimatum gave Yugoslavia 48 hours from the time of its receipt to comply with the U.S. demands...
This threat was made of sterner stuff than the more spectacular ultimatum to the Yugoslavs. The U.S. frontier had once been established on the Rhine. Now it had been moved eastward as far as the Black...
Tito ordered his planes "not to fire on foreign planes, civil or military," released the interned crew and passengers before the U.S. demand was formally delivered, said he considered the U.S. ultimatum no longer "applicable." He promised to rebury the Americans, with highest military honors, in Belgrade's American Military Cemetery (among the graves of some 80 other American airmen who helped Tito during the war), but Secretary of State Byrnes ordered their reburial...
Wall Streeters had their explanations. The bearish sentiment, touched off by A.T. & T., had been caused by: 1) the U.S. ultimatum to Tito, 2) Chrysler's announced shutdown, 3) "discouraging" second-quarter earnings. Moreover, A. T. & T., being a pivotal stock with one of the highest quotations on the market, had a disproportionate effect on the Dow-Jones index. Heavy trading in A.T. & T. had carried the whole industrial index below the market's resistance point, scared holders of other stocks into selling...