A second major reason was that the opposition's peace feelers to the Western Allies did not meet with success.

Make like you don't hate him, and put out some peace feelers for me.

Now we have unnecessarily humiliated a large and powerful country that went out on a limb to offer us a peace feeler.

Opposition against the peace feelers therefore mounted, and nothing came of them.

Frederick Henry also had an internal political motive to deflect the peace feelers, though.

Likewise, his troops had been in Kuwait only a few hours when he began putting out tentative peace feelers.

Before any fighting resumed, some on the Chinese side sent out peace feelers to the court of Ava.

In late 1942, senior Italian officials first approach the Vatican with peace feelers.

In 1782, he was sent on several secret missions to England, to make peace feelers.

His secret contacts with some of the rebel priests had been among the Government's earliest peace feelers.