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...slanderous to charge that Peru "had been improving the truce." The truth is that Peru accepted the armistice under the double condition that guarantees be offered to Peruvian residents of Ecuador, and that a decree of the Quito Government referring to mobilization be revoked. This last condition was only fulfilled on the 31st of July at twelve noon, and at 6 p.m. of the same day the Peruvian troops ceased firing...
Last month Good Neighborliness supposedly prevailed all over the Western Hemisphere. Peru and Ecuador had theoretically declared a truce, were waiting for mediation of their ancient border dispute (TIME, Aug. 4) by Argentina, Brazil, the U. S. No newsmen were around to keep tabs on the truce. Not until last week did word get through that Peru had been improving the "truce" by going after Ecuador like a next-door bully all the time...
...this surcharged atmosphere, Labor Secretary Perkins met with union leaders in Washington. The air began to clear when a formula for a truce was worked out, to which all sides quickly and thankfully agreed. The truce postponed the whole showdown: T.W.U.'s collective-bargaining contract provisions were extended until the courts decided whether the city could sign such contracts...
...absence of an organized opposition, in the conditions of the party truce and with no real elections taking place, the danger is that Parliament ceases to be representative . . . and democratic life dies. It is perhaps worth remembering that such developments were among the main causes of the fall of France...
Week's end continued the truce, but brought no peace to Ford. Charges flew thick & fast. Ford's Harry Bennett accused leaders of the United Automobile Workers of Communism. Company officials charged that dies and tools needed in aircraft production had been destroyed. To the company charge that defense work was being delayed, the union replied that it was willing to supply men to keep defense work going, but that maintenance men sent inside were manhandled...