Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked for a new plan to replace partition. Behind the scenes, however, the U.S. was trying to work out a temporary U.N. trusteeship. But before any plan could work, there must be peace in Palestine and a spirit of conciliation between Jews and Arabs. In Palestine, however, talk of truce sounded hollow. There the Jews were bucked up by a week of military successes, Arabs whipped on by a new sense of desperation...
...Lake Success, what Sheik Yaseen called "foreign interference" was on the agenda again. The 57-nation U.N. General Assembly would meet in emergency session this week in another attempt to solve the Palestine problem. But neither Jews nor Arabs had yet accepted the U.S.-sponsored plea for a Palestine truce. Without a truce, the temporary U.N. trusteeship proposed by the U.S. (and opposed by both Jews and Arabs) would be just as hard to enforce as partition...
...unthinkable." At week's end several U.S. and British freight trains got through to Berlin without being challenged. And, finally, the Russians grudgingly agreed to meet with the Western Powers to "clarify" their terms, if not alter them. For a time, it appeared, there would be an uneasy truce-until the Russians probed elsewhere. Patience and firmness had paid off again...
...submarines that amounted to undeclared war. When Hitler refused to be provoked into war by this abuse, Beard argues, President Roosevelt began, through diplomacy, to squeeze Japan into a position where she would be sure to fight. Not only that, says Beard, but Roosevelt and Hull rejected a Japanese "truce" which might have averted a Pacific war entirely. This line of argument indicates a willingness to let Japan get away with the conquests she had already made in China. It also shows surprising willingness to regard Axis offers and promises as sincere...
...This odd truce is upset by the parachute arrival of Adrian Bullivant, a British officer and even more of a weakling than most weak young men in modern British novels. He has come to instruct the 23rd Corps to blow up a dam in behalf of the Allied armies, but once his foggy mind grasps the impossibility of such a project he settles down to enjoy life...