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...disciplined language of the communiqué was scarcely an emotional outburst. But in those words Nimitz had allowed himself to unbend, for the world at large, more than at any previous time in his three years under the immense burdens of duty as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas...
...German command did not need a Yalta communiqué to know that the Allies had chosen the place-and probably the time-for the fourth and final ground front: the north German plain. There, perhaps in conjunction with landings from the North Sea, the eastern and western Allies had the same objective: to grind the Wehrmacht between them...
...victims even of historical murder scream. The London Poles reacted violently. Said an official communiqué: "Violation . . . of the Atlantic Charter and the right of every nation to defend its own interests. . . . The fifth partition of Poland now accomplished by her Allies." Cried septuagenarian Premier Tomasz Arciszewski: "The Polish nation does not believe in the promises of Russia to guarantee a free, democratic Poland...
...communiqués now being issued on the bombing of Tokyo by "Pete" Mitscher's massed air groups from Task Force 58 will have vastly richer meaning to readers of Carrier...
Accordingly, the President's recent conciliatory attitude to Congress was not only continued, but emphasized with utmost care. First off, on the day the Yalta communiqué was issued, amiable Presidential Assistant James M. Barnes, onetime Congressman, rushed to the Capitol with the document, gave both Democratic and Republican Senators a look at it before its public release. This special treatment had its effect: a chorus of immediate cheers for the charter echoed through the Senate and House chambers...