Word: truce
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Hope rose last week for a truce in Colombia's bitter religious strife. A Colombian Catholic, José Maria Chaves, 29, now teaching at Queens College, New York, and worried about anti-Protestant violence in his homeland, suggested a formula for peace. Its gist: Protestants should agree to a missionary quota, stop publicizing persecution unless new attacks occur, limit preaching to churches, avoid attacking Catholic dogmas and priests. The Roman Catholic Church and the pro-Catholic government should agree to denounce and punish anti-Protestant assaults, guarantee freedom of worship...
...truce talks, they recessed again for a week...
Three weeks of executive sessions ended last week in an ovenlike truce tent at Panmunjom. Major General William Harrison, the senior U.N. delegate, said angrily that the secret talks, undertaken at Communist request, had been "completely fruitless." General Harrison unilaterally declared a recess of one week, and walked out with his delegation...
...Lord Rothermere (brother of the titanic Northcliffe but no journalist himself) got worried. He poured millions into founding and promoting new provincial papers to fight Camrose and Kemsley. Camrose, whose formula for journalistic success is to "spend money and spend it boldly," opened his purse also. Finally, when a truce was declared, Camrose and his brother were...
...Baron Erik von Frenckell, Helsinki's mayor, proclaimed this week the traditional "Olympic truce" (a throwback to the B.C. days when the Greeks called off their local wars to celebrate the games), there were a few inevitable rhubarbs. Both Nationalist and Red China, along with East Germany, suddenly and belatedly demanded admission for their teams. Bulgaria, which drew Russia in a first-round soccer match, complained bitterly when a soccer "unknown," The Netherlands West Indies, drew a first-round...