Word: truces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Basques assumed police duties, as 300 Anarchists released from this chore dashed to face the Whites in battle. Meanwhile Governor Ortega sent his son Jose snaking out with a flag of truce. General Mola ceased fire for 48 hours, then sent an ultimatum that citizens had 48 hours to clear out of San Sebastian before the Whites advanced. Up to the very last hour it was touch & go whether the Basques and Ortega could keep the Anarchist pyromaniacs from "Direct Action." Finally, in a moderately humane battle, the Whites under General Mola went crashing victoriously along with their trucks...
...Bannockburn's fight and made thirteen years' truce...
Military operations came to a virtual standstill and Addis Ababa buzzed with rumors that the local British and French diplomats were trying to arrange with Yankee Colson some sort of "Christmas Truce...
...moment when the President might have noticed them. Instead of offering defiance, the ABA officially proffered peace in a dramatic speech from Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). As far as rank & file ABA members were concerned, the famed "truce with the White House" was rammed down their gullets...
...rose last week, capturing Hsiangho 40 mi. from Peiping, and besieging Yungching west of Tientsin. When General Shang dispatched two companies of Chinese soldiers to quell the rebels, Japanese officials flew into a rage, thundered that the rebels were in the official "demilitarized zone" set up after the Tangku Truce (TIME, June 5, 1933), and therefore could not be touched by Chinese soldiers who must not enter it. Down sat the two companies of Chinese on the opposite bank of a canal from the demilitarized zone, within sound of the shooting rebels & ronin...