Word: truces
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...theocrats tried other emergency action during the week. They were reported sending a truce mission to dicker with the slowly advancing Chinese. They also cabled a petition to the U.N. The petition flatly rejected Communist claims of suzerainty over Tibet, contended that Tibet had "complete independence" from the time of the Chinese revolution of 1911 ("Tibet thereafter depended entirely on her isolation, her faith in the wisdom of Lord Buddha, and occasionally on support of the British in India for her protection"), denounced the Reds' "unwarranted act of aggression," appealed for U.N. aid because "we understand the United Nations...
Williams has been having the opposite kind of trouble. There, freshman and sophomore have been secure in an unbecoming truce. The Williams Record was nagged by the question of which class was stronger...
...Taft added two other points: General Marshall, almost 70, was not up to the grueling assignment; the appointment of Marshall was "a reaffirmation of the tragic policy of this Administration in encouraging Chinese Communism." Taft was talking about Marshall's mission to China in 1946 to effect a truce between the Nationalists and the Reds-an errand that, though doomed from the start by the essential nature of Communism, was carried out so doggedly by Marshall that it left China naked to the Reds...
Fashionable hostesses in Cairo and Alexandria always knew better than to invite Mohammed Farghaly Pasha and Aly Yehia Pasha to the same party. Bitter personal enemies, they were also business rivals and the biggest cotton exporters in Alexandria. But last February, Farghaly and Yehia evidently struck a business truce. They began buying Ashmouni (medium-staple) cotton futures (Egypt's biggest cotton crop) on the Alexandria exchange until they had invested more than $63 million in 140 million pounds of cotton...
...Neutral Ground. Last week, after a long period of planning, Administration peacemakers tried to bring about a truce between the Secretary and Congress. Their scheme was based on the frank and open approach; they admitted that the Secretary might be a cat, but felt he was such a wonderful cat, so cold of eye, so sharp of claw, so silky of whisker, so clever of mind that even the dogs would admire him if they just got to know him. The Secretary was just back from Europe, full of news of the Western Big Three meeting and of the twelve...