Word: truce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Poland attempted to occupy the neutral zone last month in obedience to the dictates of the League, she was met with a ferocious onslaught from the Lithuanians. Poland, however, occupied the area despite the resistance, and after a few desultory but intense skirmishes, a truce was agreed upon pending a mutual agreement. It is now expected that Lithuania will recognize the authority of the League and Council and abide by their decision...
...Free State has rejected the latest, and what many observers considered the most promising move for peace in Ireland. Archbishop Harty of Cashel, in Munster County, pro posed that an immediate truce be made, that the Republicans dump all arms under pledge that they be handed over to whichever party wins the next election. He pointed out that the Republicans would thus be spared the humiliation of surrender, and yet peace would be fully restored. Tom Barry, irregular leader, was friendly to the proposal. A motion in favor of its adoption was introduced into the Dail Eireann. But Kevin...
Lithuania has broken the truce recently agreed upon with the Poles by attacking their advance guards in the central area southeast of Vilna. The object of the truce was to settle the boundary dispute amicably, but the sudden agression by Lithuania points to the long arm of Moscow...
...have been held for the conference must by this time have nearly gone a-glimmering. The sight of twentieth-century diplomats, so-called, straining at notes and swallowing armaments, provokes either laughter or ennui--certainly not admiration. Without doubt Europe is more ready to call some sort of international truce than it has been for centuries. Yet the truce is not forthcoming. The conference has been going on long enough to have accomplished something by now; and yet no one is happy or satisfied. Expect perhaps the diplomats themselves...