Word: truce
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...Truce, our reader, a parley now we crave...
What John F. Kennedy hoped to get across was a simple, eloquent thought: "Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace... I pledge you every effort this nation possesses. I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression, that we shall neither flee nor threaten the use of force, that we shall never negotiate out of fear and never fear to negotiate...
...Ndola, barely seven miles from the charred clearing slashed out by Dag Hammarskjold's doomed plane, two men arranged the cease-fire he had set out to negotiate. After a two-day session, Katanga's President Moise Tshombe and U.N. Negotiator Mahmoud Khiari signed a provisional truce, ending the eight-day Battle of Katanga. Unofficial death toll: 44 U.N. troops, 152 Katangese police and soldiers, 79 African civilians, 14 European civilians...
...Elisabethville, Tshombe had problems even more immediate than the possible invasion. Although the opposing armies grudgingly kept the truce, the city was in danger of attack by 30,000 starving Baluba tribesmen camped on the outskirts. Already Baluba raids had taken 40 lives, claimed Tshombe, announcing grimly: '"I will not tolerate this situation." The Congo political cycle was turning dangerously close to where it all began during the first bloody months of independence only 15 months ago. Preparing for a possible new round of civil war, U.N. forces got their first shipment of eight jets (from Sweden and Ethiopia...
Kennedy referred to complete, as opposed to nuclear, disarmament in vaguer but more rhetorical terms, demanding a "truce to terror" and saying that "together we shall save our planet--or together we shall perish in its flames." John N. Plank '45, assistant professor of Government and an expert on the United Nations, felt that "the propagandist line came through quite clearly there." But Plank added that Kennedy used the General Assembly "precisely as it should be used"--to persuade people rather than hammer out programs...