Word: truce
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...hill outside Nyeri one day last week, 25 Mau Mau terrorists on the way to formal surrender were killed by a company of the King's African Rifles, in time of truce. Thus ended Operation China, the strange British attempt to win by negotiation what 6,000 British troops and a squadron of heavy bombers had failed to win by war: the surrender of Kenya's Mau Mau. Named for General China, the captured Mau Mau chieftain who saved himself from the gallows by promising to work with the British (TIME, March 8), Operation China had long remained...
...talking not only to Peking and Moscow, but to London and Paris, where pressure for an Indo-China truce and an Asian "settlement" is strong...
Ridgway during the truce negotiations by "leaking" out Red propaganda-loaded stories to U.S. newsmen...
Once again-as it does almost every day-blood flowed in mockery of the state of affairs that diplomats call the Palestine truce. But not since Kibya, where, last October, Israeli invaders killed 53 Jordan Arabs, had the truce been bloodied so violently...
...Jordan border. "Investigations are not complete, and this case cannot be prejudged," said a U.S. officer of the Armistice Command. But the trail was proof enough for Israel's government that the deed had been done by Arabs from Jordan. Israel officials summoned the U.N.'s truce-supervision chief, Major General Vagn Bennike, demanded "drastic measures," and insisted, "You must bring the Jordan government to task...