Word: communique
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beginning. The first B-29 mission against Japan was flown June 15, 1944, when 68 planes from Chengtu, deep in China, bombed the Yawata Steel Works on Kyushu. The communiqué said hopefully that results were "effective." Four planes were lost on this pioneering mission. A total of 49 missions was flown from China, India and Burma bases, but B-29 men knew from the start that the invasion of the Marianas (begun at Saipan, also June 15) was far more important for their purposes. For in China every bomb, every gallon of gasoline had to be flown over...
...Subterfuge no longer obscured Russia's intention to dominate Eastern Europe. The communiqué tacitly recognized the new Poland's status as a satellite of Russia. Reasonable on some points, Stalin and his delegation were more stubborn than they had ever been before on everything concerning Poland and the Balkans...
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur's communiqué trumpeted: "The entire Philippine Islands are now liberated and the Philippine campaigns can be regarded as virtually closed...
There were still an estimated 30,000 Japs scattered throughout the Islands; U.S. and Filipino troops were burning and grenading them out of caves and jungle hideaways. Said the communiqué: "Some minor isolated action of a guerrilla nature in the practically uninhabited mountain ranges may occasionally persist, but this great land mass of 115,600 square miles, with a population of 17,000,000, is now freed of the invader...
...communiqué disclosed the reason for Premier Choibalsan's appearance. The non-Soviet world knew even less about him than about his Soviet-dominated country. But it knew that he wears the Order of Lenin, for "conspicuous services in organizing material aid to the Red Army in the Mongolian People's Republic," and that in any discussion of Chinese-Russian relations, Marshal Choibalsan's nation will play an important part...