Word: communique
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Those decisions would remain secret until they had been carried out. The terse communiqué that followed the meetings said little more than that complete agreement had been reached, that victory could come only with "the unconditional surrender" of Germany, Italy and Japan. But as a necessary prelude to victory, before victory could even be discussed, a formula had to be found for settling the political confusion in North Africa...
...propagandists prepared their audiences for the greatest shocks of the war-and for a major change in German strategy. Said the official German news agency: "The German High Command plans to shorten the whole of the Russian front and to build up a new main defense line." Broadcasters and communiqués admitted that the Germans were retiring from the Caucasus, that for the remnants of the once-great army at Stalingrad "there was nothing left but death...
...Australian troops mopped up the last Jap pockets. Of the 15,000 Japs who once held Papua, only a few stragglers were left. At last, 117 days after the Allied drive began, a communiqué announced: "Ground fighting in Papua has ceased." The end was historic: 117 Japs chose to surrender and live...
...late afternoon the oft-derided Kittyhawks were attacked by 18 Zeros. Score: 13 Zeros shot down, one Kittyhawk (pilot safe). When 20 more Zeros jumped some Lightnings they lost all but five. Total Jap planes lost in three days: 85 certain, 48 more maybe. Said MacArthur's communiqué dryly: "The enemy's air losses over the last three days may be regarded as serious." Allied losses: "Comparatively negligible...
...bomber, droning through the Arctic sky one day last week, spotted a Japanese freighter where no Jap freighter ought to be. Said the Navy's laconic communiqué: "The ship was left burning and was later seen to sink." The Navy offered no conjecture as to what the ship was doing 110 miles north and east of Kiska, in the Bering...