Word: truce
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...these first proposals. But neither did they reject them outright, and Bernadotte was ready to follow up with more suggestions. Said he: "I will carry on with the discussions as long as may prove necessary and fruitful." He began sounding out both sides on an extension of the U.N. truce, due to expire this week...
...With only eleven days left till the uneasy four-week Arab-Jewish truce expires, Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte sent to both sides his recommendations for peace talks to achieve a permanent settlement in Palestine. The recommendations, carried by plane to Cairo and Tel Aviv, were still wrapped in official secrecy...
...nosed in toward the shores of Israel. She called herself the Altalena now, and aboard were 750 supporters of the terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi and enough weapons and ammunition (so the Irgun boasted) to arm a brigade of 6,000. In defiance of the U.N. truce and of the Israeli government, the Irgun intended to land the arms...
...Requesting Egypt to arrange a truce...
...January the U.N. could record one achievement; its Good Offices Committee reported truce terms had been agreed upon by: 1. India and Pakistan...