Word: communique
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Axis troops in suddenly hopeless positions gave up. Across the steppes plodded long lines of Axis prisoners hobbling to Russian bases, some to have frozen limbs amputated, stumbling toward the Volga in a Drang nach Osten such as der Führer never pictured. According to Moscow communiqués, 66,000 were seized in ten days of fighting. Into Russian hands fell quantities of booty: food, clothing, more than 50,000 rifles, 3,935 machine guns, 1,380 tanks...
Radio comedians were reminded last week that war is only sometimes a laughing matter. They got a letter from the War Department's Radio Branch, which had been getting complaints from soldiers and soldiers' families & friends. The War Department communiqu...
...Absolutely no information can be sent out of Germany regarding air raids on German towns, except the Ministry's brief, undetailed communiqu...
...been more desperate than in any other spot, there were happenings to make the national pulse race. For days the Navy had merely hinted at what might be a final showdown. The U.S. people kept their fingers crossed. The three-day battle over, the Navy released its jubilant communiqu...
Such reassurance was desperately needed. U.S. reaction to the bitter, confused news from the Solomons had undermined faith in the frankness of Army & Navy communiqués (see p. 77). Confidence in Government news slumped to an all-time low; and with it, the pangs of Army & Navy censorship hit home again like a fierce stab of chronic appendicitis...