Word: communique
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...repudiated, and every German paper jubilantly front-paged it as showing the "real mind" of Neville Chamberlain. Viscount Runciman, the British Mediator in Prague, began cabling London heavily in code, was reported threatening to resign. Finally, in the evening, at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister issued a communiqué: "The suggestion to the effect that the Czechoslovak Government might consider as an alternative to their present proposals (see p. 18) the secession of a fringe of alien population in their territory in no way represents the views of His Majesty's Government...
...this tacit invitation to Sudeten Germans to provoke an incident, the British Foreign Office issued an exceptionally stiff press communiqué saying that His Majesty's Government "welcome the conciliatory attitude displayed by the Czechoslovak Government," have hoped for a "constructive response" from the Sudeten Germans, and that "the issue by the Sudeten German Party of a proclamation relaxing the admirable discipline hitherto observed by the Sudeten Germans is therefore much deplored...
...border was easy to argue about, since it was fixed by the Sino-Russian treaty of 1886 of which Russia holds the only known copy (China's copy was unaccountably lost). So fortnight ago the Japanese seized the hill. The Russians fought back and all last week Japanese communiqués were filled with accounts of the repulse of Russian attacks in force. The Japanese laid great emphasis on their "restraint" when Russian planes bombed the Rashin-Hsinking railway which, since it lies in Korea, is certainly in Japanese territory...
Although Japan has consistently tried to minimize recent Japanese-Russian clashes on the border of Siberia, an engagement, amounting to full-dress warfare occurred last week at disputed Changkufeng Hill close to the point where the Soviet-Man-chukuo border reaches the Sea of Japan. Terse Moscow communiqués said the Japanese had been "defeated," that the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires in Tokyo had been ordered "to lodge with the Japanese Government an energetic protest and to draw its attention to the gravest possible consequences of the actions of Japanese militarists. ..." A detailed Japanese official communique described...
...noon that day the weak, confused Government of Left Republican Santiago Casares Quiroga issued a communiqué condemning a revolt that it admitted had broken out in Spanish Morocco, but protesting that "nobody, absolutely nobody had taken part in this absurd scheme" in Spain proper. But before the week was out Premier Casares Quiroga's "nobody" had grown to a formidable list of somebodies, including Spain's best generals, 75% of the Spanish Army of 120,000 officers and men, many devout Catholic communicants, an overwhelming majority of the numerous Roman Catholic clergy, former noblemen and landowners, Fascists...