The rebels, the Government, the army and the main political parties all have advanced seemingly conciliatory proposals that they have apparently counted on being rejected.

Mr. McClure had accepted a number of conciliatory proposals made by Mr. Yates but had sparred with him on others.

They went south to Teanum where, on 22 January, Lucius Julius Caesar, a kinsman serving with Caesar, brought conciliatory proposals from the proconsul.

The Guerrillas' Conditions The guerrillas, who have made several conciliatory proposal in recent months, insist on judicial and economic changes before they end the war, which so far has claimed 70,000 lives.

But Mr. Gore's seemingly conciliatory proposal was delivered not through back channels, readily available to bring the warring parties closer, but "live" and as a "breaking development," feeding the anxious media.

The Commission was, however mandated to seek the re-establishment of the pre-war colonial assemblies, to offer again the terms of Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal regarding self-taxation, and to promise a further discussion of colonial grievances.

Parliament passed the Taxation of Colonies Act 1778, which repealed a number of taxes (including the tea tax that underlay this act) as one of a number conciliatory proposals presented to the Second Continental Congress by the Carlisle Peace Commission.