Word: truces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Geneva truce, when hordes of refugees from the Communist North flooded into his parish, Father Jacques's life became busier than ever. "Priests," said the local Communist leader, "are always on the side of rich men." But the parishioners of Giadinh knew better, seeing their priest trudging wearily on his daily errands and returning to his tumbledown vicarage riddled with termites. Their juiciest fruits and biggest duck eggs were reserved for the father's table...
...Thus thousands more readers will learn what Edith Hamilton has to teach about the city where "the great spiritual forces that war in men's minds flowed along together in peace; law and freedom, truth and religion, beauty and goodness, the objective and the subjective-there was a truce to their eternal warfare, and the result was the balance and clarity ... a reconciling power, something of calm and serenity, the world has yet to see again...
...name derives from the treaties of "perpetual truce" ending "hostile acts at sea" (i.e., piracy, slave trading) that the British signed with their rulers in the 19th century...
...looking for signs of rebel movements. He bitterly denounced "predatory oppositionists" and "criminal elements, including Communist collaborators," who "seek through terrorism and disorder to damage their nation's economy as well as its prestige to satisfy their own personal anti-patriotic ambitions." He rejected any thought of a truce...
...making his points plain. The "terrorists" had suffered "heavy losses," which had "obviously" affected their morale, he told airport reporters. Said Harding dourly: "Take note of the fact the word used is suspend, not cease, operations. I think you should also want to have regard, when you consider any truce offer, to the status and reputation of the man who made...