Word: communique
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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...
...Potsdam communiqué promised publication by Sept. 1 of a list of defendants whose crimes have "no particular geographical localization." These include such top Nazis as Göring and Ribbentrop, who will be tried by a joint four-power military tribunal (although nearly all of them are in U.S. hands...
...communiqué, signed by at least two powers which once looked with stern disapproval on Hitler's forcible transfers of populations, promised "orderly and humane" migrations. But the disorderly, miserable flight of millions of Germans from the east continued (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Potsdam communiqué noted the Polish Provisional Government's promise to give full freedom to the press of Allied nations in reporting developments in that country "before and during" the elections to determine Poland's government...
...Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, the communiqué by no means insured free access to the Russian-dominated zone. The Russians themselves, with a fundamentally different conception of the role of the press, had only a handful of Tass men in the Balkans. Nor could they understand why the U.S. and British governments had transmitted applications for scores of reporters to enter the area. U.S.-Russian understanding on a free press was still unfinished business...