Word: parleyed
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...Federal Council's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace (TIME, March 16), emphasized the lack on their return to the U.S. from a month's meetings with British leaders of church & state. Lawyer Dulles, veteran of almost every important peace parley since the 1907 Hague Conference, summarized their findings...
...once the British made an effort to get there first: this week they announced that they were laying hands on Madagascar. Thus, on the heels of a Hitler-Mussolini meeting that seemed to presage some great new evil (see p. 29), and a parley of Madagascar-hungry Japanese diplomats in Vichy, the British anticipated one likely Axis move...
...Demchok, on the border of Kashmir, the caravan met a band of soldiers, wearily prepared to fight yet another battle. Then, at a parley, they learned they were facing British border troops from Kashmir. All the Kazaks wanted, they told the Kashmir officials, was a place to graze, land where they could live. To reach their final camp the Kazaks had a last ordeal-to lead their camels and herd their sheep over the 11,300-foot Zoji-la Pass. When the great caravan pitched its tattered tents at Muzaffarabad, only 3,500 Kazaks were left...
...Chavante village, Dr. Genesio Pimentel Barbosa, head of the commission, called a parley. The Indians silently listened to his offers, brought fruit for the white...
...110th's Battalion took the whole business as soldiers should. When civilians were not around, they laughed and kidded, sang snatches of songs, tried to improvise on an old theme-"General Lear he missed his putt, Parley Voo-. . ." And when they finally got back home they grinned at the gibes of other soldiers. They did not seem to feel that they had disgraced the Army...