Word: truce
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Mackenzie King and his Liberal Party leaders studied this worrisome situation at their first wartime caucus in Ottawa. The Prime Minister was bellicose; he roundly castigated his opponents, declared against a general election for the duration, but left himself room to call a quick one if expedient. The party truce was off; from now on, it would be Politics Unlimited...
...Taxes and national savings will be "strengthened." (Already a man pays 30% tax on his movie ticket, a 30-60% tax on his lunch, a 200% tax on his geisha fee.) > Business "control organs," which, under a truce between Big Business and the Army, regulate production, wages and hours, will be drastically reformed. > Holidays will be curtailed. Tojo's Fears. Of the 2,900 words in Tojo's address, Italy was not one. But the Italian collapse, Tojo knew, did more than remove an ally. It Also foreshadowed stronger Anglo-U.S. pressure in the Pacific, and dented...
...orchard by the crews of two disabled Nazi tanks. The Germans had two wounded American prisoners; one of their own men was badly shot up. They proposed that the parachutists take all three wounded to a U.S. first-aid station in exchange for their own freedom. A temporary truce was accepted, with the understanding that the Americans would make no immediate attempt to counter-capture the Germans...
...householder, had it fastened to the radio mast of his car and drove into the city. In the windless evening the pillowcase hung limp and inconspicuous. An Italian fisherman along the way had a white sheet on a pole. The U.S. general borrowed the sheet for a flag of truce, and drove on through the streets, pocked here & there by bomb marks. At the palace there was no sign of General Arisio. Palermo's chief of police quickly found him. General Arisio as quickly made his position clear: he would accept any terms of surrender...
...namby-pamby compromises and do-nothing policies. Ahead was a challenge for postwar leadership from the newly glamorized Conservative party of Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden. No call for a jousting match was Labor's first vote: 2,000,243-to-274,000 against breaking the electoral truce - thereby pledging Labor to support Conservative by-election candidates in all districts won by Conservatives in the last (1935) general election...