Word: communique
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Could the people take it? Washington did not seem to think the people could. Army and Navy communiqués stressed good news, toned down bad. The President, in a testy mood, appeared to feel that the people did not yet understand the war. Congressmen, bogged in gloom and desperately trying to save face on their self-pension bill, potshot at each other...
...this week Douglas MacArthur well knew that he was on the threshold of his deadliest test yet. Winston Churchill's announcement of Singapore's fall was not 24 hours old when a terse Philippine communiqué revealed...
...smoldering in their wake. Some $11,000,000 in cash and many a shipload of relief materials from a sympathetic U.S., commented Herbert H. Gowen in his An Outline History of Japan, "are things no Japanese is ever likely to forget." Japan did not forget. Said a War Department communiqué last week...
Moscow war correspondents and military observers have come to learn that vaguely worded Soviet communiqués usually herald some startling news. Last week Red Army spokesmen conceded a substantial stiffening in German resistance, continued to weigh Russian gains in terms of scores of villages and "tens of kilometers," were carefully vague for several days about specific details of the Soviet advance...
...writers of German Army communiqués were hard put to explain the situation. Their excuses were lame. "The Soviet Army has not engaged in one single, real large-scale attack during the last eight weeks. Anyhow, fighting in the area which was mentioned by the Soviets has not ceased...