Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With three weeks to go before the British mandate expires, U.N. was frantically seeking for a workable plan for Palestine. The Security Council appointed a truce commission to try to persuade Arabs and Jews to stop their war. That was almost certainly a futile gesture. Nevertheless, the consular representatives of the U.S., France and Belgium (named as the commission) held a meeting in Jerusalem against a background of gunfire...
...that a security system for that city might be expanded to embrace all of Palestine. And for the first time, Britain wavered from its nobody-loves-my-dogged position that all British troops would leave by August; if the U.S. would provide its share of troops to enforce a truce, London seemed at least willing to think about leaving some Tommies to help out. Britons added, tongue in cheek, that the U.S. share might have to be commensurate with the U.S. position in the world...
...embryonic plans were based on hopes of a voluntary truce in Palestine. No settlement would work if it had to be imposed by force. In Palestine last week, force was the only word...
...Argentina, President Juan Domingo Perón's truce with the Communists seemed to be about over. Police raided the fellow-traveling Union of Argentine Women, hauled 92 off to jail. Thirty-one Greek sailors were deported for spreading the party line among Buenos Aires' Greek colony...
...delegates on Long Island, unwilling to impose trusteeship by force, had less & less chance of getting a truce by agreement...