Word: truce
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...promptly relieved of his command. Somehow Col. Enrique Penaranda had managed to wriggle through the encircling Paraguayans and escape with 3,000 men. The Government made him a Brigadier General, handed him the nation's defense. Meanwhile at the Pan-American Conference in Montevideo, Paraguay proposed an unrestricted truce. Peace in Chaco seemed at hand...
...hummed at an announcement by President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain will withdraw on Dec. 7 from President Roosevelt's once-famed "Tariff Truce" (TIME...
...Governors had no better plan. They lopped off Reno's last three proposals, got him to declare a truce in the farm strike. Then Governors Olson and Schmedeman entrained for Washington. Their colleagues later flew in the same direction...
...preoccupation with his dollars made it fruitless for the President to talk War Debts with Britain's emissary. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. Undersecretary Acheson and Governor Black of the Federal Reserve Board talked for two hours with Sir Frederick. Result: rumors of a monetary truce between Great Britain and the U. S. whereby dollar and pound would be "loosely" pegged while the U. S. pursued its gold-buying program. As for War debts, observers predicted that Sir Frederick would soon go home without anything having been settled except another "token payment" by Britain in December, signifying that her debt...
Three hours later, with smoke belching from the roof of the National Hotel and great breaches gaping in its walls, the officers ran up a flag of truce. As they marched out, laid down their arms and prepared to surrender, the soldiers suddenly opened fire, shot ten defenseless officers dead in their tracks. Thirty more dead officers were found in the hotel. While the living were roughly carted off to jail, their civilian sympathizers on housetops fired into the ranks of the soldier-captors, killed 20. Soon after the officers were imprisoned, the crack of rifle squads sounded grimly from...