Word: communique
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...scant four and a half hours before the resounding Big Three communiqué was released in Washington, the White House made public another document, as important in its own way as the message from Yalta...
Some such phrase usually winds up the daily German war communiqué. The ever-obliging High Command would no doubt be delighted to give more precise information, but it cannot. The Germans do not know just where their V-bombs fall; the British take pains not to tell them...
Last week, King Peter decided to hold his crown on with both hands. Without notifying the British, Russian, U.S., or even the Yugoslav Government of Premier Ivan Subasich, he issued a royal communiqué to the British press, announced that he would not accept a regency while his subjects were voting on the question of his return to Belgrade...
...against it. In September 1943, it hinted authoritatively that General Marshall would be "kicked upstairs" from his Chief of Staff job. Three months later, its authoritative guess was that a British general would lead the invasion. These wrong guesses were dropped in beside carefully compiled lists of official orders, communiqués, casualty lists (usually, officers only) and social notes on the doings of the officer caste-all reported as staidly as in the Journal's rival, the equally unofficial Army & Navy Register...
...Leyte landing: "The strategic result of capturing the Philippines will be decisive. . . . The Dutch East Indies . . . Borneo, Malaya and Burma will be severed from Japan proper. . . . To the north, either flank will be vulnerable and can be rolled up at will." Two months ago a communiqué claimed: "The end of the Leyte-Samar campaign is in sight...