Word: communique
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese the best war news in a long time was the absence for several days last week of Japanese announcements of fresh advances. Tucked away in Tokyo communiqués there were even statements that sizable Japanese forces in captured North China territory among the mountains of Shansi had been fed with biscuits dropped by Japanese bombers...
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...with peppery little German Minister for Propaganda Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. In the belief that Cinemactress Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec) was a Polish Jewess, Minister Goebbels refused her permission to act in Germany. Suddenly this order was overruled by the Führer himself. "Investigation," read the official communiqué, "instituted by the Reichsführer has established that Pola Negri is Polish and therefore Aryan" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Pink with pleasure, Actress Negri cried: "The whole world knows that I am a Catholic. . . . Der Führer must be a brilliant man. I haven...
...Ciano was doing Austria and Hungary. By themselves Austria and Hungary have been timid about breaking the post-War treaties intended to hog-tie them but last week, feeling they were under Dictator Mussolini's broad wing, they joyously slipped these bonds. In a joint Italian-Austrian-Hungarian communiqué the three Governments announced that "equality is the fundamental principle of justice," and construed this noble sentiment to mean that the clauses of the Treaty of St. Germain and of the Treaty of Trianon which limit Austria to an army of 30,000 and Hungary to 35,000 have...
...European diplomatic front of the Ethiopian war last week tension rose again toward the breaking point. Three brawling boasters could scarcely have vaunted themselves more ready to fight at the drop of a Sanction than did Britain, France and Italy in the suave and supple but exceedingly dangerous communiqués of their respective governments to the Press...