Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five thousand U.S. artillery shells rained down on Coblenz - one of them blowing to smithereens a statue of Emperor Wilhelm I. Then, one evening, a lone U.S. medium tank equipped with a loudspeaker rolled up to the Moselle river bank and hurled a surrender ultimatum across to the survivors of the Coblenz garrison. There was no answer...
From the Quirinale, an angry column marched to the Viminale (Government headquarters). There a delegation of its leaders, including Unità's fiery Editor Velio Spano, who is also a member of the Communist Party's Central Executive Committee, handed Premier Ivanoe Bonomi an ultimatum: immediate and drastic reforms, or resign. Said Bonomi: "This is no time for me to desert...
Hurriedly the Premier called his four-party (Christian Democrat, Labor Democrat, Liberal, Communist) Cabinet into session. Then Foreign Minister Alcide de Gasperi, chief of the Christian Democrats, handed Vice Premier Palmiro Togliatti. boss Communist, an ultimatum: call off the Communist attack on the Government, or resign. But the Communist Party ordered Togliatti not to resign...
...Union Ultimatum. The Dodge local's president, Mike Novak, issued an ultimatum to Chrysler: take back the eight discharged men. The union ignored pleas from the Army, refused to obey a War Labor Board order to go back to work and submit the grievance to mediation. A meeting at which International officers sought to intervene wound up in a rousing 30-minute fist fight...
...Breaks. Through the lines on Friday came an enemy envoy carrying a white sheet. He delivered an ultimatum: two hours to decide upon surrender. The alternative: "annihilation by artillery." The German commander appended a touching appeal to U.S. instincts: "The serious civilian losses caused by this artillery fire would not correspond with the well-known American humanity...