Word: truces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important of all, the General Assembly should send troops from neutral nations, like India, Burma, and Sweden, into Hungary to enforce a truce and evacuation of Soviet troops from the area...
Unexpected Casualties. This time the Israeli attack did not go quite as planned. It took nearly two hours to capture and blow up the fort. Troops trying to take it by frontal assault across flat ground crisscrossed with barbed wire suffered un expected casualties. When the U.N. truce chief. Canada's Major General E.L.M. Burns, called for a ceasefire at midnight, the Israelis rejected it because, as a spokesman admitted later, "we weren't through yet." At that time, Israeli forces sent to block off reinforcements ran into a tough fight five miles east on the Samaritan road...
...Trojan Truce. But Kemal's tireless Turks had stopped the Allied expedition at the beachheads. In London Church ill was tumbled out of the Admiralty. At Gallipoli the battle bogged down in stalemate. One million men, Allied and Turk, were pinned down in a rocky battleground no more than 25 miles long by 13 miles wide; in places the trenches were only ten yards apart. Across the narrow no man's land, men exchanged gifts of food and cigarettes as well as shots...
...than echo the traditions of the New and Fair Deals. When he has personally taken over the duties of Secretary of State, he has been able to take actions that no Democrat, however much he might have wanted to, could have afforded to take. The President accepted a Korean truce on terms that Stevenson, had he been in the White House, would probably have been forced to reject in order to prove to the country that he was a loyal American. The President calmed down the country when the Chinese shot at airplanes, and he kept...
...fact is that the E.O.K.A. truce offer took the British government by surprise. About the last thing the British want at the moment is any sort of negotiated settlement that would bring about