Word: communique
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Stowe's story caused enough stir so that a British communiqué was issued calling it a "distortion of the facts." British newspapers (except the Times of London) carried extracts from it and demanded greater frankness from the High Command. Correspondent Stowe and his employers squeezed their "beat" for every drop of blood, even claimed that the Chamberlain Government might have fallen had the full Stowe text reached the British public...
...invaded again, he wants neutral witnesses of her rape. No alarmist either, it was he who undoubtedly facilitated Reporter Casey's quick passage to the scene last week as the German Legation warned local newspapers to handle Allied news with caution, to "keep entirely to the truth-loving communiqués of the German High Command...
...session as a top member of the Supreme Allied War Council went crinkle-eyed little Paul Reynaud, France's new more-action Premier, potential Clemenceau of World War II. Both his electorate and the British expected some sign of new energy from the Council. They got a formal communiqué: "[Both Governments] mutually undertake that during the present war they will neither negotiate nor conclude an armistice or treaty of peace except by mutual agreement. . . . They undertake to maintain after conclusion of peace a community of action for so long as may be necessary...
Although the Ministers' communiqué said they would put concerted pressure on belligerents to respect their rights, what is the use of pressure without teeth...
...popped up now for over a year, but last week the British reported that Waziristan tribesmen were again shooting at stray Indian soldiers. At New Delhi it was quickly concluded that the Fakir had gone on the warpath once more. Matters became so serious that regular Army communiqués were issued. "Our casualties were light," read one which might well have described the Western Front. "The second of two columns encountered considerable opposition...