Word: truce
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...General Assembly ended its second week of discussion of what to do. There were prospects of peace in at least one small part of Palestine: Jewish Prime Minister-to-be David Ben-Gurion, who had been visiting Jewish militiamen during Passover, cabled his representatives at U.N. to accept a truce for Jerusalem's Old City. But most of the U.N. debate was still concerned with procedural issues. Between meetings, the delegates of the 58 nations sent their assistants to the newsstand in the U.N. cafeteria to buy the latest editions of the newspapers, to find out what else...
With three weeks to go before the British mandate expires, U.N. was frantically seeking for a workable plan for Palestine. The Security Council appointed a truce commission to try to persuade Arabs and Jews to stop their war. That was almost certainly a futile gesture. Nevertheless, the consular representatives of the U.S., France and Belgium (named as the commission) held a meeting in Jerusalem against a background of gunfire...
...that a security system for that city might be expanded to embrace all of Palestine. And for the first time, Britain wavered from its nobody-loves-my-dogged position that all British troops would leave by August; if the U.S. would provide its share of troops to enforce a truce, London seemed at least willing to think about leaving some Tommies to help out. Britons added, tongue in cheek, that the U.S. share might have to be commensurate with the U.S. position in the world...
...embryonic plans were based on hopes of a voluntary truce in Palestine. No settlement would work if it had to be imposed by force. In Palestine last week, force was the only word...
...Argentina, President Juan Domingo Perón's truce with the Communists seemed to be about over. Police raided the fellow-traveling Union of Argentine Women, hauled 92 off to jail. Thirty-one Greek sailors were deported for spreading the party line among Buenos Aires' Greek colony...