Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold, tough winter. Reason: the coal strike in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AF FAIRS). Said Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe: "The Canadian position will be very serious. . . . I am much more alarmed . . . than I was at any time during the war." Two days later the truce in the strike was reached. But even a final settlement would not mean coal for Canada right away. U.S. bins would probably have to be filled first...
West Point, peaceful enough since the truce with the British in 1780, was in the front line again. This time the conflict was over West Point's government-owned cache of 225 million oz. of unpledged silver. The opponents: U.S. manufacturers v. the Silver bloc...
...There never was a time when breathing space was more needed, a blessed convalescence, a truce of God and man." But, he said, "this is a time when hatred is rife in the world, when many branches of the human family, victors or vanquished, innocent or guilty, are plunged in bewilderment, distress or ruin. The world is very ill. . . . Mankind cannot in its present plight bear new shocks without descending to altogether cruder and primordial forms...
...Government and the Reds reached a new accord, what was to prevent the Reds from violating that too, creating another "changed situation" and demanding a still higher price for the peace China needs? Said a high Government official: "[The Communists] want us to agree to an unconditional truce, because this would legalize their attempt to overthrow the [military] agreement...
...monetary and commercial aid, encouragement of private investment-would help strengthen the Central Government's efforts to establish its sovereignty and restore order. But Marshall well knew that no foreigner-however great his prestige - could mend a 20-year rift, or could stay indefinitely to enforce a truce. The Chinese themselves must do both, and some recognized the fact...