Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte was grave but pleased. In Cairo he announced to assembled newsmen that both Jews and Arabs had accepted his plan for a four-week truce in Palestine. At one point Bernadotte humbly said: "If we hadn't got help from God Almighty . . ." He looked up and saw some cynical smiles among his listeners. Bernadotte screwed his monocle more firmly into his right eye, continued: "Without His help, we wouldn't be sitting here...
...sent one last burst into the Arab positions. A shell exploded on the balcony of an Arab hospital, killing an attendant. As he was carried out of the ward, head hanging limply, a nurse whimpered: "He is dead. Did you see him die? He would have lived if the truce had started half an hour sooner...
...clock, the truce deadline, a siren wailed through the Jewish quarters. The drumfire noises of war faded to scattered shots, then died out completely. An unreal quiet gripped Jerusalem. It was the same throughout most of Palestine...
...firing stopped. Both Jews and Arabs quickly charged truce violations as one side or the other tried to stake out claims in the no-man's-lands between front lines. Each side would be entitled to stand fast on what it held for the month of peace-if it lasted that long. The most important pre-truce drive was an unsuccessful Israeli effort to reopen the road from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Anticipating failure, the Jews had hacked a primitive trail through the hills south of the main road. There mule trains, jeeps, and slogging men kept a trickle...
Bernadotte would need all his diplomatic skill. Israel and the Arab governments said that they had "unconditionally" accepted the Security Council's call for a four-week truce. But there were conditions to the unconditional: the Israelis had attached "assumptions," the Arabs "explanations." One of the chief obstacles to agreement was the question of immigration. Jews insisted that the Security Council resolution allowed unlimited immigration, even of men of military age. The Arabs claimed that Jewish immigrants were potential soldiers and should be barred during the truce period. By week's end Bernadotte said that this quarrel...