Word: truces
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Proprietor Kinsel and the U.S. Air Force finally signed a truce. The Air Force made a movie (hero: Delbert Kinsel) to be shown at his drive-in. From the screen he welcomes his patrons, reminds them that they are just across the road from one of the nation's most vital Air Force bases, and points out that each time a jet passes overhead it means that the U.S. Air Force is on guard. He also suggests that by tuning up their carside loudspeakers patrons can still hear the lovers' mumble above the military rumble...
...speakers went into great detail on the refugee problem, continual truce violations, and Zionist proposals for expansion. Miss Herlitz asserted that Israel was satisfied with her present territory and would never try to expand. She asked the Arabs to "take the chip off their shoulder" and approach negotiation with a more positive attitude. Sayegh responded that his country could not accept happenings as "accomplished facts regardless of their method of accomplishment...
...news of the Gaza shelling broke just as U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold prepared to take off on a mission to the Middle East. In sponsoring the U.N. resolution which dispatched him, the U.S. had hoped his presence could quiet the borders and add authority to the U.N. Truce Commission. Hammarskjold himself described his trip as at best "just an episode on the long road" toward Palestine settlement. At this moment, peace in the Middle East is only a relative condition, and settlement a dreamer's word. But is open war, then, a likely possibility...
...much when he gives Bodoc a job and takes the preacher's side against the courthouse-cathouse gang. Laird's son Clay shoots a mean deputy and is convicted of murder in Book Gresham's court. But in the end a sort of moral truce settles over Tuxahatchie County, with virtue still walking barefoot on the hills, and evil, condemned only by the knowledge of its own corruption, still ruling the valley...
COEXISTENCE WITH THE U.S.S.R.: "Personally I am weary of the long semantic argument about coexistence. If we exclude the solution of atomic war, and if we exclude the solution of surrender, all we have left is some form of armed truce which we can call coexistence or anything else you like...