Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago he flew to Mar del Plata and offered to Radical Leader Marcelo T. de Alvear, who was vacationing there, a political truce. Under this new Pinedo plan the chiefs of the two political camps, Radicales and Conservadores, would choose common candidates for the principal offices to be filled in provincial elections this year. For minor offices each camp would run its own candidates. While wily Marcelo de Alvear kept mum, Pinedo let the deal out of the bag and the press and Juan Pueblo waxed indignant...
Heavy mists hung over northwest Europe last week and so did heavy suspense. A Christmas "truce" was observed by the Luftwaffe, but the quiet was ominous. The most terrific military force in the world, the German Army, had been idle for six months and on Christmas Eve its commander, Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, visited its westernmost camps on the Channel coast. At Cap Gris Nez, near the long-range guns which sporadically hurl shells into England, he told his men: "The Channel will protect England only so long as it suits us." Führer Hitler was also...
...British Army and Royal Air Force took no chances. As soon as the Christmas truce was over, Germany's "invasion ports" were thunderously plastered with bombs night after night, from Norway to lower France...
...this was coldblooded, the U. S. at least could not point a finger of reproof, for Americans have long been proud of the exploit of George Washington, who on Christmas evening, 1776, crossed the Delaware and attacked the Hessians who had overeaten and overdrunk. Actually a general Christmas truce is impossible for practical reasons. The Germans, for example, could not be expected to keep their submarines inactive so long as British convoys plied the seas. And to keep their convoys off the seas on Christmas Day the British would have to give up shipping on the North Atlantic...
There is also a religious reason why a Christmas truce would not work - as Pope Benedict XV found when he proposed one in 1914. In Albania the Italians will celebrate on Dec. 25, but the Greeks, following their Church's calendar (like the Russians in 1914), will celebrate...