Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...temporary United Nations trusteeship for Palestine. . . . Trusteeship is not proposed as a substitute for the partition plan but as an effort to fill the vacuum soon to be created by the termination of the [British] mandate, on May 15. ... If we are to avert tragedy in Palestine, an immediate truce must be reached between the Arabs and Jews. . . . With such a truce and such a trusteeship, a peaceful settlement is yet possible...
Through the local priest they have established an unofficial truce with the Nazis. When the German general plans a "raid" he tips off the priest, who in turn warns the partisans. The eleven members of the "23rd Corps" scatter to the woods until the "raid" is canceled and then return to" their village. The formalities of war are observed, but no blood is shed...
President Truman called urgently yesterday for an Arab-Jewish truce in Palestine and United Nations trusteeship there, but both Arab and Jewish leaders seemed cool to his proposals...
President Conant predicted a "very long period of armed truce with Russia." "We are in for years of this conflict," he said, "and we had better make up our minds...
Conant described the period we are living in as an "armed truce" with most of the differences stemming from a "fundamental disagreement in appraisal of what is going on in the minds of the leaders of Soviet Russia. These who control the destinies of Russia and her allies are sincere and convinced proponents of a philosophy far different from...