Word: truce
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Korea brought new crises, bigger budgets and a truce in the interservice knifing. In December 1952 President-elect Eisenhower and Defense Secretary Designate Charles E. Wilson made their trip to Korea. At Iwo Jima, in Korea, aboard the cruiser Helena (where Ike gathered prospective members of his Cabinet) and at Honolulu, Radford-as the Navy's Commander in Chief, Pacific-expounded his theories on military diplomacy and on the problems of Asia...
...North Africa as British political representative at the Allied headquarters of General Dwight Eisenhower. There, in two years of close cooperation, they became "Mac" and "Ike." Macmillan, who was taught French by his mother before he spoke English, was given a large measure of credit for patching up the truce between the feuding French Generals Giraud and De Gaulle. He moved on to head the Allied Control Commission in Italy, where he conducted the negotiations with Italy's Marshal Badoglio. Late in the war Macmillan was sent to Greece to mediate in the savage civil war; he installed...
...would be able to establish workers', students' and women's movements throughout the entire country. Sighed a U.S. observer: "The Royal Government of Laos is about the only government left in the world which hasn't heard of the classic Communist maneuver of conquest by truce negotiation...
Soil & Soul Zionism was sparked largely by oldtime European social democrats who relegated religion to second or even no place at all. In Israel, Orthodox believers and a secularist government still live in uneasy truce. But among U.S. Jews, this division has been largely ignored. The majority of U.S. Jews accepted Zionism so enthusiastically, mixing its political aims with their faith's ritualized nostalgia for the lost homeland, that most Orthodox rabbis and lay religious leaders have made a place for themselves in Zionism. They usually did so in one of two organizations: the 100,000-member Mizrachi Organization...
...Telegram Managing Editor Richard Starnes, who guessed immediately that the Journal had received a letter from the bomber, checked out his hunch, and broke a Page One story on the bomber's "new letter to a New York newspaper, hinting that he may declare at least a temporary truce." Three days later, when most other New York papers had printed the story, the Journal-American's account finally appeared under an eight-column banner...