Word: truce
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...Senators of both parties had agreed not to introduce controversial legislation until Thursday, the day originally scheduled for the President's State of the Union message. When Thursday came, but no message, most Senators assumed that the agreement was still in force. Senator Chavez argued successfully that the truce had expired. Moreover, he brought up the FEPC bill during the "morning hour" when debate on motions is prohibited by Senate rules, thus forcing an immediate vote before Southern Senators could marshal enough members to defeat...
...merchants and respectable townspeople realize that the homesteaders are in the right in their feud with the cattlemen, but everybody has too much business prudence to stick his neck out. Everybody, that is, except Mr. Scott, who organizes the homesteaders and brings a specious truce to Abilene...
Democratic Rights. The Political Consultation Conference, set up last fall by Generalissimo Chiang and Communist Chairman Mao Tse-tung to work out China's political unity, thus began its task under favorable auspices. Besides the truce, the P.C.C. heard other important news from the Generalissimo. The Government was taking steps to insure democratic civil rights, promote local self-government, curb the secret police, grant equality to "all legal parties," release all political prisoners except "traitors" and those guilty of "injurious acts against the Republic...
...truce between the National Government and the Communists was not the millennium; the road ahead was rocky with grave issues. But not since V-J day had China's prospects seemed so good...
Next morning the truce was drafted. From the rostrum of the opening session of the Political Consultation Conference, the Generalissimo proclaimed the news amid a thunder of applause. Cried Chungking's Ta Kung Pao: "General Marshall . . . has achieved merit of global proportions...