Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France. Max Corre had helped found Samedi Soir and thought he had enough tricks to lick his old paper at his own game. In weeks of racing to get on the streets a day ahead of the other, their press deadlines had been juggled three times. Now, under a truce, they will come out the same day-Wednesday...
...Security Council could look back on a sizable list of frustrations and failures. It could also note one current achievement: from Java, U.N.'s Good Offices Committee reported to the Council last week that the Dutch and Indonesians had at last agreed to truce terms. But the success was dwarfed by threatening new business...
...report, President Conant outlined the position of universities in the present postwar period, which he termed an "armed truce," warning that "interference with their freedom as a result of panic" could be "disastrous in effect...
Scholarly activities of a university are founded on a "charter of free inquiry," he pointed out. Any barriers to "an objective analysis of every phase of our national life are not only harmful to the security of the nation, but also delay the "conversion of the present armed truce into a firm and lasting peace...
...Ridge, Mr. Conant has been the first to express his denunciation in definite, well-publicized terms. He ably points out that being an asset to some government department and being a valuable member of a university faculty are far from one and the same thing. Nor should the "armed truce" atmosphere in the world today load to panic-stricken curtailments of freedom, academic or otherwise...