Word: communique
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Last week's communiqués were a resounding vindication of those who had been denouncing overoptimism for three long years. With the bad war news justifying every move, Washington went to work fast and hard on civilians...
...bitter confusion of the German breakthrough the Army clamped down a censorship thicker than the pea-soup fog that shrouded the great German counterattack. Communiqués were as much as 48 hours behind the event. When they came they were meager and vague. Correspondents blew...
MacArthur's Communiqués. Europe was not the only place where Army Public Relations had a public-relations problem. From the other great theater of Army operations, communiqués passed along by General MacArthur's loyal press chief, Colonel LeGrande A. Diller, had aroused deep doubts-in the New York Times's military expert, Hanson Baldwin, among others-about the General's accuracy in reporting the facts. A recent communiqué asserted that during the Leyte campaign the enemy had "sustained 82,554 casualties." On the basis of the document itself, that precise-sounding...
MacArthur communiqués sometimes pose a problem in semantics. Isolated phrases can be easily defended: the overall effect, especially to the uncritical reader, has sometimes been rosier than the cold facts warrant. On landing at Morotai: "This would cut off and isolate the enemy garrison in the East Indies . . . sever the vital supplies to the Japanese mainland of oil and other war essentials...
...when organized enemy resistance on Guam had ended, 10,971 Japs had been buried (along with 1,214 U.S. casualties) and the disorganized enemy had been driven into the hills. To the folks back home a communiqué announced that Guam had been "secured." But to the bearded, haggard soldiers and marines who had done the securing, that did not mean that the fighting was over-not by a long shot...