Word: truce
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...seen. But the speech fitted tidily into the policy he has followed steadily since the June 16 bombing revolt: to seem the statesman and play the peacemaker while stalling for time to mend his power. Coming after his opponents had spent a week noisily rejecting his offer of a truce of the week before, charging trickery, his soft retort left them with their fists up and no one to fight...
...they got one-way travel permits and third-class tickets aboard the President Cleveland, bound for San Francisco. When the 21 chose Communism, Defense Secretary Wilson had ordered them dishonorably discharged without court-martial, an unprecedented and possibly illegal move that has yet to be tested in court. Under truce-agreement guarantees, they can never be prosecuted for their choice. But they may have to stand trial for crimes in prison, along with hundreds of other returned "progressive...
...Truce Between Factions. Not for him was the "opening to the left" offered by Fellow Traveler Pietro Nenni and his 75 left-wing Socialists. Instead, Antonio Segni concentrated on closing the fissure that threatened to split his Christian Democrats wide open. Right-wing Christian Democrats under ex-Premier Giuseppe Pella had been instrumental in bringing Scelba down. Segni placated them with an offer of two ministries: Finance and Administrative Reform...
...Segni's government." explained one top Christian Democrat, "is a government of truce between the factions of the Christian Democratic Party...
...Truce. The elder Silliman Evans bought a controlling interest in the sick Tennessean in 1937, promptly made a truce with James G. Stahlman's staid evening Banner (circ. 91,878) under which the papers killed competing editions, merged mechanical facilities and ad departments. By thus cutting costs, Evans soon turned his paper into a moneymaker...