Word: truce
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...seem to be fated to live in a divided world for many years to come," Conant warned. "The ideological conflict between the believers in the Marx-Engels-Lenin doctrine and the rest of the civilized world seems to promise at best a long period of an armed truce...
...Stern gangsters like to call themselves) who had inveighed against the U.N. mediator. The Communists (whose line the Sternists follow) called Bernadotte a "traveling agent of American business." Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok accused him of partiality to the Arabs, and Prime Minister Ben-Gurion himself snapped: "The truce is an act of war designed to break our will...
Also hit (17 times) was Colonel Andre P. Serot, a French member of the U.N. truce mission. He was killed instantly. Bernadotte, still breathing, was rushed to nearby Hadassah Hospital, where he died. The assailants got away in their jeep...
...killed was brought to Tel Aviv and parked in front of the U.N. mission's hotel. Someone had chalk-marked a jagged bullet hole in the rear seat, and a pretty brunette girl told passersby: "That's the one that got him." The staff of the U.N. truce mission had lost its last shred of idealism about its task. "I'm in the country where Christ was born," said a U.S. captain in a bar, "and I wish to Christ I was in the country where I was born...
...Berlin, where military men met last week to labor on a wary truce (see below), the Communist press had a peace message of its own. World War II, the Communists declared, had been started not by the Nazis, but "by the infamous instigation of the German people by the golden bedbugs of Wall Street." The accusations that whirled back & forth between the victors who had only recently tried Germans as war criminals induced a German humorist to crack: "It is almost enough to make one feel insecure in one's guilt complex...