Word: communique
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This time Herr Henlein had apparently let one cat too many out of the bag. The German Minister in Prague, Ernst Eisenlohr, received a telephoned dressing down from Berlin, the Sudeten party leaders went into hurried conference. Soon a party communiqué denied that Henlein had given any such interview. It appeared that for the present Germany is not ready for talk of "direct action," may prefer one of Mr. Henlein's alternative causes...
...planes of Leftist Spain bombed Caude, the Rightist air base near Teruel, last week. Later, Leftist communiqués announced as the result the destruction of 25 Italian Fiat pursuit planes. Near Cedrillas, on the Teruel-to-the-sea front, Leftists reported that the Rightist advance had been checked with the aid of their bombing and strafing aviation...
...Lunghai Railways in Central China. In that vicinity the Japanese Army, doubled to a strength of 200,000 men in the last two weeks, was getting perilously near to the vital railway, had almost encircled Suchow. While Chinese defenses North of the railway held fast, even Chinese communiqués admitted Japanese advances by mobile columns from the South. At week's end the Japanese claimed that one column had cut the railroad at Tangshan, 50 miles west of Suchow. There the Japanese Southern Army hoped to meet the Japanese Northern Army and close the western...
Even top correspondents were flatly told by the entourage of Chamberlain & Friends that every effort will be made to keep them from learning any details of the negotiations now begun, until the four Great Powers are ready to issue communiqués (handouts), expected in about six weeks. Hitler last week was handed what Chamberlain had to say by British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson, who brought the papers personally from London. This week the Führer's reply will be taken to London by the new German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The French Ambassador was messenger...
...years but six months in which to complete repayment. This was the Dictator's way of saying that the State will seize the housing. "The 1,500,000,000 rubles of State funds which have been loaned to the co-operatives." declared the Kremlin's official communiqué, "have been practically turned into private property of members of the cooperatives, who thus at the expense of the State became privileged owners of living space, with insignificant investments of their...