Word: communique
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...bombardment. While their artillery was being moved up to support the continued advance, the Russians kept up the bombardment with planes. The Finns had no respite. Far behind the Russian lines transport was choked with men and supplies, but the supply lines did not break down. Jubilantly a Leningrad communiqué told of the Red Army's approach to Kämärä. The Finns admitted a withdrawal to new positions, insisted the main line still held, called up men of 44 and youths...
...elected Indian legislature and cabinet at New Delhi. The Viceroy had half a mind to grant the Mahatma an all-Indian cabinet, reserving, however, the portfolios of Defense and Foreign Affairs for the British Raj. The Mahatma sternly declined and the conference broke up. The Viceroy issued a cordial communiqué; the Mahatma, the next morning at dawn, invited newsmen to listen to a "sunrise soliloquy" delivered by himself...
...Although the Russians still held Liinahamari and Petsamo, the Finns were sure enough of their success to say in a cautious communiqué: "The winter war in the north is ours...
...this wordage over Comrade Stalin's 60 years of life only six-line communiqués on the progress of the Red Army in Finland were printed in the U. S. S. R. Obviously, the hammer-sickle propaganda machine preferred that Soviet citizens pay as little attention as possible to a scarcely encouraging military campaign (see p. 20). Much, however, was written about Joseph Stalin's enormous effect on world affairs in the last twelve months...
...days before Christmas, at 5:30 in the afternoon, Ambassador Grew's tall, easy-moving figure appeared at the gai-musho (Foreign Office). For an hour the Ambassador and Foreign Minister were closeted. Shortly after the interview ended, a happy communiqué was issued indicating "progress." Spokesman Summa summed up the talk with a confident double negative: "There will not be a non-treaty situation between Japan and the U. S." But it appeared that Japan would have to offer more than the Yangtze promise...