Peace feeler

A peace feeler is, in diplomacy, a means of determining whether a warring party is prepared to end hostilities. William Safire defines it as "a diplomatic probe, real or imagined, to end hostilities."[1]

References

  1. Safire's Political Dictionary, p. 528
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