Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the Olympic Games of antiquity, the bellicose cities of ancient Greece invariably observed a "sacred truce." This week Greek guerrillas had cut the relay route of the Olympic torch. Runners by day and night were to have borne the fiery symbol the entire length of Greece on its way from Olympia to the opening of the games at London on July 29. Instead, the torch could be carried a mere 20 miles to the nearest port, whence a British destroyer would take it to Bari, Italy, for the long relay through five countries to the English Channel...
Secret Weapon. At the last minute, Bernadotte and the Security Council tried to extend the truce before the still rickety war machines of Jews and Arabs could pick up momentum. Israel said it was willing to accept the extension. But the Arab League refused, claiming that the truce was "unworkable and one-sided." In Rhodes, where hard-working Bernadotte had found a little time for play (see cut), he warned both sides. After they had rejected his suggestions for a settlement, he said, "the losing party . . . can no longer hope to get so much . . . They take terrible risks in starting...
Both sides were confident enough to take those risks. The month of truce had given Israel time to organize its half-formed army more thoroughly. Fighting with their backs to the sea, the Jews were telling each other last week: "Our secret weapon is ein brera" [no alternative]. Some Arab statements were tempered with a new note of caution. "Of course we're confident," said the Arab League Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. "The trouble is that some people expect spectacular results right away, but it isn't that kind of a fight. It is a guerrilla...
Meanwhile, the Dutch have argued that Fox's contract violates the Renville truce agreement under which they keep full sovereignty (and the right to negotiate foreign agreements) until 1949. The State Department, always sensitive to the more enterprising doings of its nationals abroad, has said nothing officially...
...these first proposals. But neither did they reject them outright, and Bernadotte was ready to follow up with more suggestions. Said he: "I will carry on with the discussions as long as may prove necessary and fruitful." He began sounding out both sides on an extension of the U.N. truce, due to expire this week...