Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held islands in the Ryukyu chain, including Okinawa, had passed in part from Admiral Nimitz to General MacArthur. But no word of this change had come from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who made the decision. Not until week's end did MacArthur's headquarters proclaim: the Ryukyus, with the Philippines, "form a great semicircular base from which a mighty invasion force is being forged under the primary responsibility of General MacArthur for the final conquest of Japan...
...Committee (headquarters: Prague) announced in Russian: "Slav representatives have appealed to Marshal Stalin and the Allies to liberate them [the Wends] from the Germans and incorporate them in Czechoslovakia." The committee also exhorted the Wends forthwith to: 1) set up Wend national bodies in all towns and villages; 2) proclaim themselves Wends and Slavs; 3) speak Wendish...
...Suspicion? A Guess? Henry Wallace, of course, found nothing "irreconcilable in our aims and purposes. Those who so proclaim are wittingly or unwittingly looking for war, and that, in my opinion, is criminal." Assistant Secretary of State Archibald MacLeish told a radio audience: "The basis for the suspicion [toward Russia] is nothing more substantial than suspicion...
Senator Happy Chandler, newly-crowned czar of baseball, crept out on a limb for this epic struggle by declaring. "This great game will undoubtedly the greatest of all the when it returns by the forefront to proclaim its possibility of ability. I firmly believe that baseball can played in several episodes which must...
Wire services last night added nothing to previous reports except to say that President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill will go on the air this morning at 9 o'clock, presumably to proclaim the end of the war against Germany. Men in the field are still fighting, it was said...