Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...truce settled on Palestine last week it seemed probable that the new state of Israel, already recognized by 15 nations, would seek and get U.N. membership at next fall's meeting in Paris. It was time to stop pondering the settled question of whether there would be a Jewish state, time, to start asking what kind of nation Israel...
...peace, the West's ability to act in unison, was demonstrated also in the Palestine truce. Peace had been endangered and the United Nations disgraced by the failure to halt the Palestine war. Finally, U.S. and British policies were brought into line. In a matter of hours after that, the prestige and potency of U.N. returned last week, and the Arabs followed the Jews in accepting a truce in Palestine (see below). The truce in Palestine, the B-29s in Britain, were signs of the same solidarity...
...Palestine war nearly finished U.N. This week it got a new lease on life when the Arab states agreed to a U.N.-imposed truce. The Jews had already agreed. Fighting dwindled toward a stop. It was U.N.'s first major achievement since it got the Red Army out of Persia in April...
...week before, there had been real danger that the U.S. would start arming Israel while Britain continued to arm theArabs. U.S. policy finally crystallized in a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for sanctions (i.e., punishment) against either side that refused or broke the truce. Britain supported the resolution. Against that united front, the warring parties did not dare to stand...
...final accolade from the competition came to stocky, talkative Acme Editor Harold Blumenfeld, when the Hearst papers' Picture Boss Dick Sarno walked into the basement office, waving a flag of truce. Would it be O.K. if William Randolph Hearst Jr. came down to see how Acme was doing it? A few minutes later, young Hearst and a flock of lesser Hearstlings came in for a guided tour...