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Word: truces (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected to return again until October, something was obviously up. For eight hours he talked with testy Premier David Ben-Gurion. Hammarskjold wanted reassurances that B-G was not about to break the peace. The U.N. mediator had been concerned by B-G's recent threat to U.N. Truce Supervisor Major General Burns to do something drastic if Jordan misbehaved. B-G had shaken a Bible under Burns's nose and quoted Deuteronomy to him: "Thou shall not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small; thou shalt not have in thy house divers measures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Weights & Measures | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...exist in the Communist North. Last April the British reversed their Geneva policy and aligned themselves with the U.S. and Diem. Last May the French pulled out their troops and lost their power to influence events. India, authorized by the Geneva powers to supervise the military details of the truce, also agreed to let July 20 pass by and to keep on maintaining the peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: All Quiet on the 17th Parallel | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...installations. In China, he roamed for ten weeks from Canton to Manchuria, interviewing Chinese and making a photographic record of whatever he saw. During five weeks in Peking, he met ten of the 16 remaining U.S. prisoners of war who chose to stay in Red China after the Korean truce. At People's University, where they are dragging out their third lonely year studying the Chinese language, he was allowed to take the pictures shown here. Pabel found the turncoats homesick, living on $40 a month each given them by the Chinese Red Cross. Afraid to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWS IN PICTURES: U.S. TURNCOATS: A BOLD SHOW | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...Arabs read it and blew up. They insisted that the council must strike the whole paragraph out: such words might commit the four Arab states to more than a military truce with the Israelis. Syria's Delegate Ahmed el Shu-kairy said flatly that to satisfy the Arabs "the establishment of Israel, its membership in the U.N. . . will have to be revoked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED NATIONS: Who Is For Peace? | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

Died. Admiral Charles Turner Joy, U.S.N., ret., 61. chief U.N. negotiator of the Korean War truce talks at Panmunjom from July 1951 to May 1952, onetime (1949-52) commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East, 37th superintendent (1952-54) of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, author (How Communists Negotiate); of leukemia: in San Diego. To Admiral Joy, the three-year Korean conflict was a tragic "holy war" which the U.N., by failing to press its advantages, lost to the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 18, 1956 | 6/18/1956 | See Source »

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