Word: communique
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brussels the Cabinet, after emergency meetings, issued a communiqué: "The Government cannot assume responsibility for the political events which will inevitably develop . . . immediately after the King's return. . . . Current affairs will necessarily comprise the maintenance of public order as well as political responsibility for the words which the King will pronounce. . . . Therefore, the Government has handed to the Regent [Prince Charles, the King's brother] its resignation...
Harry Truman dispatched two emissaries to prepare the way. To Moscow went ailing Harry Hopkins (whom anti-New Dealers had already dealt out of the new Administration). At the Kremlin, where he is no stranger, Harry immediately had a 90-minute conference with Stalin. No communiqués were issued...
...commanded by Captain Michio Okuyama, daringly landed amid the enemy in Kita and Naka airfields on the main Okinawa Island. . . . Upon landing they promptly blasted grounded enemy aircraft, munitions depots and airfield installations in rapid succession and are achieving great war results by throwing the enemy into confusion-Japanese Communiqu...
With Berlin and Bremen silent, Hamburg became the official broadcaster of the German High Command's daily communiqués (which fell hours behind schedule "owing to communications difficulties"). Dr. Karl Scharping, propaganda pet of Goebbels, asserted from Hamburg: "Germany ... is a force which grows. . . ." When the Hamburg radio announced the fall of the city, Deutschland über Alles filled...
...been heard from since accepting a Soviet invitation to palaver about the Yalta agreement and broadening the Warsaw Government. Last week the very vocal London Polish Government, whose communication lines with Poland have been thin since the Red Army liberated the country, came out with a sinister communiqué saying that all 15 had "vanished," implying that the Soviet authorities had rubbed them...