Word: communique
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...York arrived a smuggled letter telling of the end of Spyros Vlachos, 29-year-old Greek correspondent. Last summer Reporter Vlachos had the rashness to telephone a dispatch to the New York Times declaring the Cretan revolt was "more serious than the governmental communiqués indicated." Arrested and blacklisted, he poisoned himself November 14 because he "could no longer stand the loss of liberty in his chosen profession...
...what correspondents termed almost unprecedented for a British Prime Minister-an informal interview. Incredulous at this break, newshawks found Neville Chamberlain seated at a desk, sipping a cup of coffee and rolling a cigar between his lips with evident satisfaction. He shoved across the desk a copy of a communiqué to be issued in the names of himself and Adolf Hitler: "We regard the agreement signed last night and the Anglo-German naval agreement [of 1935] as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples never to go to war with one another again...
Anxious queries from French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet were soon answered by British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax with official assurances that the Anglo-French entente has not been scrapped or even weakened by the Chamberlain-Hitler communiqué. Neutral diplomatic experts shrugged, "The terms of the communiqué are indeed so vague that, depending upon circumstances, they can come to mean anything or nothing." Mr. Chamberlain dispatched a formal letter of assurance to M. Daladier...
...delayed timing of this communiqué meant at the very least that Czechoslovakia was subjected to a full day of increased "pressure" and agonizing uncertainty. It caused John Bull to cut momentarily the figure of a man who starts to saw off the leg of a friend when he sees the ankle grabbed by an octopus, as Cartoonist Jerry Doyle of the New York Post observed (see cut). Editor Dawson, three days after his "sawing" editorial, made amends. He praised the speech of Czechoslovak President Benes (see p. 19) as "a model of what a public utterance should be," denounced...
...Leftist-held Ebro River salient last week brought a Rightist offensive to a sudden halt, resulted in the 26-month-old war's quietest week. Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco himself commanded during the early part of this drive. Mentioned casually, however, last week in a Rightist communiqué as the new commander of the Ebro offensive was able, forceful General Juan Yague, who directed the successful Rightist offensive last spring. This meant that General Yague, relieved of his command-rumored even to have been put in jail-because of an "indiscreet" speech at Burgos, opposing civilian bombings, had been...