Word: truce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eastern Lands. The New Year peace of Europe extended, last week, very generally across Asia except in China. Even there, however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen...
Came Armistice Day, and as 11 o'clock ran around the world the former Allied peoples gave themselves up to two minutes of silence; for it was on that day nine years ago, that the truce was signed in a brown railroad car of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits in the Forest of Compiegne...
...Tariff Truce...
...Russia did at Brest-Litovsk, America has made a separate peace with Germany without even the slightest suggestion of an adjustment with her comrades in arms. That was the blood truce with the common enemy. Today, a money peace between the allied and associated powers is being devised...
...alarmists. The external formidability of Japan and the obvious straights of her population, so pent within narrow islands, have given her, in the words of social prophets a predatory future. They have seen the damn erected against the yellow millions by the coast states of America as only a truce and postponement of the inevitable inundation. The actuality of these dismal prospects is for scholars of the subject to ascertain. But a bit of recent news from Asia suggests that the armor of the east rings a bit hollow, that Mongolia and Siberia will receive the land hungry Japanese before...