By day's end, Captain Saukuru was no closer to gaining a permanent truce than he had been in the morning.
First, he called all Chinese secret societies together and demanded a permanent truce.
The armistice, signed in Panmunjom on July 27, 1953, was designed to silence the guns just long enough to arrange peace talks and a permanent and legal truce.
Shouting terms at each other, they could not reach agreement on the terms of a permanent truce, but did agree to further mediation, which resulted in a five-year truce.
Or, at least, declared a permanent truce . . .' 'You have realised at last that we offer you no danger.
It is a place of permanent truce.
"We have agreed to a temporary cease-fire," he declared, "not a permanent truce."
Cyrus proposes the assembled crowd a permanent citywide truce that would allow the gangs to control the city.
She and Chuck had spent ten years battling unsuccessfully for a permanent truce.
Could Tsurani and Kingdom forces perhaps seek a permanent truce and turn against them?