Word: communique
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end two universities in the interior were still on unbroken strike. Colonel Perón's communiqués showed no sign of worry. But the Colonel's lady was a little nervous. In her handbag, Eva Duarte reportedly carried an Argentine Army hand grenade...
...former conference of World War II and its unpeaceful peace, the negotiators struck attitudes and took extreme positions for the sheer sake of bargaining. Quibbling over details had vastly increased. Molotov won no friends by arguing for an hour and 40 minutes over the wording of a conference communiqué, later issuing his own statement...
...communiqués were issued as the two leaders began their talks. But with the signing of the Sino-Russian pact (TIME, Aug. 27) a change came over the Communist propaganda line. The Generalissimo was no longer a "fascist" defeatist but "President Chiang Kai-shek." The Generalissimo's regime was no longer the "reactionary Kuomintang clique" but the "National Government." Said a Communist spokesman: "We recognize Chiang as a national leader of the anti-Japanese war and we are prepared to recognize him as the leader of postwar rehabilitation...
From the start, he was no communiqué commando. He made his first flight into enemy territory on the same Eighth Air Force raid on Wilhelmshaven in which the New York Times's Bob Post was killed. At Anzio the Germans shot out his bathtub when he wasn't in it; after Dday, planes strafed a rubber boat he was in, and missed again...
Radio Tokyo broadcast a high-command communiquí announcing renewed offensives on all fronts, then withdrew it. The Emperor called in Foreign Minister Togo. A Tokyo radio operator, chatting with a station in Switzerland, said that an important message was expected but still unfiled. The Japanese press played up two possible successors to Hirohito: his eleven-year-old son, Crown Prince Akihito, and his 40-year-old brother, Prince Takamatsu. Radio Tokyo referred vaguely but constantly to the comings & goings of the Emperor's elder statesmen...