Word: truce
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...Calais, the thunder of bombardment died and white flags fluttered in a short truce. Beside a demolished bridge eight miles from the town's center the British general commanding the Canadian besiegers waited to confer with the Calais commander, a Colonel Schroeder...
...colonel, apparently assigned just before the siege to hold Calais as long as possible, soon turned up with his staff. They were smartly uniformed, but one officer had a wooden leg, another only one arm. Colonel Schroeder stiffly saluted his adversary. Said he, referring to the anomaly of a truce: "This is like something out of Alice in Wonderland...
...wish you to know," he went on, "that I have received orders from my Führer to fight to the last man and that is what I intend to do. The sole reason for suggesting this truce is to find a way of evacuating the civilian population...
...truce was agreed upon. Thousands of civilians streamed from the town into the Canadian lines. As the meeting at the bridge ended, the British general said: "Well, Colonel, I hope you will enjoy tomorrow's bombardment...
...year-old Sir William Beveridge waited in vain for the Government to implement his famed social security report. Last week, his patience exhausted, he forsook Oxford to take his plan to Parliament himself. He will stand as a Liberal, is virtually assured of election under the wartime party truce. Soon he will have another rod in pickle for the Government: his new Plan for Full Employment in a Free Society...