Word: truceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With only eleven days left till the uneasy four-week Arab-Jewish truce expires, Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte sent to both sides his recommendations for peace talks to achieve a permanent settlement in Palestine. The recommendations, carried by plane to Cairo and Tel Aviv, were still wrapped in official secrecy...
...nosed in toward the shores of Israel. She called herself the Altalena now, and aboard were 750 supporters of the terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi and enough weapons and ammunition (so the Irgun boasted) to arm a brigade of 6,000. In defiance of the U.N. truce and of the Israeli government, the Irgun intended to land the arms...
...Requesting Egypt to arrange a truce...
...January the U.N. could record one achievement; its Good Offices Committee reported truce terms had been agreed upon by: 1. India and Pakistan...
...Bernadotte was pleased that the truce agreement was being observed. Last week U.S. planes patrolled Palestine coasts, U.N. observers checked Israeli imports for war supplies, manned checkpoints on the road to Jerusalem as big food convoys moved to the city's Jews. In answer to Bernadotte's call for more help, 50 U.N. employees from Lake Success signed up to go to Palestine. Some were guards, others were stockroom clerks or statisticians or employees in the U.N. movie unit. Among the gear hastily issued them before they took off from La Guardia Field for Palestine were .35-caliber...