Word: truce
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...little war"-the U.S. had contributed to the defeat. "I will not be a party to any agreement that makes anybody a slave," said President Eisenhower emphatically on June 30. But three weeks later, the U.S. had to stand with the rest of the West, take note of a truce that would make slaves of 12 million Vietnamese...
Speaking on the eve of the Indo-China truce, Meany said: "The policy of massive retaliation, which was put forward in the early spring as the policy of the Eisenhower Administration, has vanished into thin air. Let us hope that it will not be replaced by a policy of massive appeasement on a world scale that would make Munich of 16 years ago pale into insignificance...
...canceling all its ads and putting an embargo on all news to America's No. 1 business newspaper (TIME, June 28). The W.S.J. stood its ground, insisted it would continue to dig up news about G.M. despite the ban. Last week G.M. and the W.S.J. announced a truce. General Motors, explained G.M. President Harlow H. Curtice, has been interested only in protecting its "property rights," i.e., its ownership of copyrighted blueprints of new models. "It was never our intention," he added, "to interfere in any way with [the W.S.J.'s] publication of news." On his part, W.S.J. President...
Near the bamboo conference hut at Trunggia, 25 miles north of Hanoi, the Vietnamese coolies were planting fresh green shoots for a new crop of rice. Communist Viet Minh soldiers watched them from the road. Inside the hut, beribboned French and Vietnamese truce officers faced five Communist officers across a long table. The three Vietnamese fidgeted uneasily in their seats: it was their country whose fate was being decided, but they were forgotten men there...
...name of one of his persecutors. The accused: U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. In Haymes's deportation hearing, one of his lawyers insinuated in a question to a witness that Brownell himself had ordered Haymes arrested while the crooner relaxed off guard, during a supposed 60-day truce with the Government. At week's end, another bit of Haymes's past caught up with him. This time the persecutor was his former wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru, who could now have Haymes arrested because he forgot to show up at another hearing, where Joanne had planned...