Word: communique
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...water-laced flats of eastern Holland, Montgomery's British and Canadians moved ahead, canal by canal, while the Germans warily eyed' their reserves and wondered when the big blow would jail: For one of the operations that communiqués call "local actions," LIFE Photographer George Silk went forward with an assault battalion, cabled this report...
...confusion steamed up from the communiqués. They reported positions captured a second time without ever having admitted that the enemy had moved back in after the first capture; they reported positions taken twice, without explaining that faulty maps had caused mistakes in the identification of peaks and ridges...
...western shore, Japanese reinforcement convoys appeared and were attacked by fighter bombers from Sverdrup's new strips. Some were burned and some were sunk. Thousands of Japanese troops on their way to reinforce the stubborn, holdout garrison at Ormoc died. How many thousands, no man knew, although the communiqués offered guesstimates in bold round numbers...
Approval by Moscow. With this plan in his pocket, British-supported Dr. Subasich flew, not to London for the approval of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, but to Moscow for Stalin's O.K. After three days of Kremlin conferences, Stalin approved. Said the official Soviet communiqué: "The Soviet Government welcomes Marshal Tito's and Prime Minister Subasich's efforts to unite all truly democratic national forces . . . and to create a democratic, federative Yugoslavia...
...fight for Leyte Island, whose capture will give U.S. Army forces a strong clamp on the mid-Philippines, did not change last week. But the complexion of the fight was altered considerably. The Japs stiffened, and they brought in help from other bases. It looked as though U.S. communiqué writers had been overconfident again...