Word: communique
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chastened by the row over the secret voting deal, Secretary Stettinius now let it be known that there had been one other big topic at Yalta not mentioned in the communiqué: the question of trusteeship of colonies and liberated areas. On this there would probably be a wide split of opinion among U.S. citizens, as there was certain to be between the U.S. on one side and Britain and France on the other. The U.S. Navy, for one, made its position clear last week (see Postwar). All Ed Stettinius would say was that there would be a Big Five...
...change the painful subject, tried to make common cause with the U.S. and Britain (whom he once called "victim to [their] own errors"). Over a Vatican report that Jap troops in Manila had butchered 172 Spanish men, women & children, the controlled Madrid press waxed hotly indignant. An official communiqué protested the "systematic, premeditated murders." An official demand for satisfaction was dispatched to Tokyo...
...Paris, where censorship blacked out all domestic news of the episode for a week, newsmen finally got the De Gaulle explanation. It was this: General de Gaulle, still hurt at not having been invited to Yalta, had not had time to study the Yalta communiqué and its full implications. Furthermore, he felt that Franklin Roosevelt would ask commitments of him which he was not prepared to make on short notice. Hence, he refused the meeting...
Accordingly, the President's recent conciliatory attitude to Congress was not only continued, but emphasized with utmost care. First off, on the day the Yalta communiqué was issued, amiable Presidential Assistant James M. Barnes, onetime Congressman, rushed to the Capitol with the document, gave both Democratic and Republican Senators a look at it before its public release. This special treatment had its effect: a chorus of immediate cheers for the charter echoed through the Senate and House chambers...
Happily for the press, one capable U.S. newsman was on deck: Presidential Secretary Steve Early, an old A.P. hand. He not only helped get out the Big Three's communiqué, but was probably responsible for such side stories as the conference at Malta, and the news that Bronx Boss Ed Flynn went along. The New York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, whose words of praise for anything Rooseveltian are rare as a miser's largesse, was moved to remark: "The best job of reporting that the competent Early has turned in since...