Word: sanctionless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sanctions to enforce a truce. Britain balked. Unless King Abdullah's Arab Legion spilled over into territory marked for Jewish control by the U.N. partition plan, Britain apparently was not going to try to check him. On British insistence, the Security Council voted for another sanctionless truce order, with a 36-hour time limit. While U.N. debated, U.S. Consul General Thomas Wasson, member of the U.N. Truce Commission appointed last month, was killed in Jerusalem by a sniper's bullet...
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