Word: communique
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President Roosevelt, who loves good news, went beaming to his meeting with Good Neighbor Prado. The less optimistic might wait and wonder, but Franklin Roosevelt was confident of a victory won. The thunderheads broke; the rain poured down. The skies brightened. Said the first Navy communiqué: "Very excellent news has been received...
...planes, and probably in ships. It took Douglas MacArthur's angry prose to as sure the U.S. people that the victory had not been too expensive: "The enemy version of the battle off, the northeast coast of Australia is entirely fictional and has no semblance of a true communiqué of fact. . . . His claims of damage ... are fantastic. Our losses compared to his own are relatively light...
Wrote MacArthur in the communiqué announcing Jacoby's death last week: "Melville Jacoby covered the Philippine campaign for TIME and LIFE with complete devotion to military standards. He could well have served as a model for war correspondents at the front...
...dodge the draft or dodge the fight. War Secretary Stimson's No. 1 officer rule is that no one gets a commission so that he may duck the draft. And in the Navy, hundreds of frisky young officers holding desk jobs recently got a jolting communiqué: get on sea duty-or else...
...make the R.A.F. offensive seem a second front, the Air Ministry issued a communiqué estimating that 1,500,000 Germans were being kept in the west by the offensive. The London Times claimed: "In addition, half of the entire fighter strength of the Luftwaffe is kept away from the Russian front to meet the R.A.F.'s attacks." Neither the figure nor the claim bore examination. The Air Ministry, in fact, listed only 20,000 combatants in a breakdown of its 1,500,000 total. The Times claim did not fit very neatly with the R.A.F. announcement that...