Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decide whether this thin capillary justified Jewish claims that they should now be allowed to supply Jerusalem unhindered by the Arabs. Another pressing problem: how many Jews of military age should be allowed to enter Palestine? There would be many other problems for Bernadotte. To assist in policing the truce terms, the U.S. sent 21 officers to work with him, ordered planes and ships to patrol the coastline and Arab frontiers...
...Lake Success Russia's Andrei Gromyko angrily insisted that Russia, too, be allowed to send truce officers. That was the last thing U.N. wanted. But how could...
Russia be denied a share in the truce enforcement? The answer accepted by Bernadotte: restrict inspection officers and patrol craft to the three powers (France, Belgium and the U.S.) represented on the U.N. Truce Commission...
...Bernadotte left for the Greek island of Rhodes to begin the second and most difficult part of his job-to arrange a long-term settlement between Jews and Arabs. He left behind a sputtering Palestine. The Jewish terrorist organization Irgun Zvai Leumi accused the Israeli government, in accepting the truce, of "submitting to shame rather than continuing the struggle." The implied threat to break the truce brought a sharp statement from Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: "The Government will not suffer any attempt to be made by anyone in our midst to break the truce . . . Anyone...
...possibility of extending a month's uneasy truce into permanent peace now depended on the willingness of both sides to give a little ground at Rhodes. But Israelis said that they would never consider any solution that did not recognize Israel's sovereignty; Arabs were still flatly refusing to acknowledge even the existence of the Jewish state. Said Transjordan's King Abdullah: "There is in Palestine a fire which must be extinguished. The Western states wish to bury this fire under embers which might rekindle and again burst into flame...