Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat a victory gong, no firecrackers sputtered. But for the first time in almost two years of political haggling, China could look with cautious hope to a truce in her civil...
Proposal. Before these three were named came a week of rapid-fire action. The Communists, whose military position in northern China was rapidly worsening, had urged an "unconditional, immediate and nationwide" truce. On New Year's Eve, the Government countered with a three-point plan: 1) "all hostilities within the country shall cease and railway communications shall be restored"; 2)-General Marshall should be consulted by a representative of the Government and a representative of the Communists; 3) an impartial commission should investigate conditions in the civil-war zone...
Acceptance. The Communists asked Yenan for instructions, conferred with General Marshall. After two days they accepted in general the Government plan as a basis for truce negotiation. This week Generals Chang, Chou and Marshall got down to cases...
...transatlantic rate war between Britain and Pan American's Juan Trippe was halted last week by an uneasy truce. The terms of the truce were British. But the victory was partly Trippe's. The British will permit U.S. airlines to fly from New York to London 14 times a week (CAB promptly divided the flights evenly between Pan American Airways and American Overseas Airlines). But there were strings attached: U.S. airlines must charge $375 each way, $100 more than Pan Am wanted to charge. And U S. lines could not carry more than 500 passengers a week each...
...military leaders on outworn techniques of warfare; the tragic lack of statesmanship, realism and vision on the part of the world's government leaders in spite of the obvious desire of the world's peoples for a genuine peace and not an armed and jittery truce-all these portents mean but one thing: that the Third World War is in the making and can confidently be expected to break out within the next ten to 20 years...