Word: communique
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...France (see p. 23). Warmly Uncle Arthur and Br'er Briand clasped hands. Nobody knew then whether the Frenchman was still Foreign Minister or just Citizen Briand. His resignation was in the hands of Prime Minister Pierre Laval of France, but the Cabinet had issued an evasive communiqué suggesting that it might be withdrawn. Briand himself had said sturdily, "I resigned-it was my duty, wasn't it?" On leaving Paris, cheered wildly at the station by a French crowd in which prominent Frenchmen were conspicuous by their absence, M. Briand had accepted a large bouquet...
From Rome came no denial. At Brussels the press received a communiqué from the Royal Palace. Text: "The honor of a family, whether royal, middle or working class is entitled to protection. The Prince of Piedmont* may decide to bring legal action. Up to now His Royal Highness and the Belgian Royal Family have opposed with disdainful silence all such rumors...
...such an announcement were the most natural thing in the world, the Government of Northern Ireland issued this communiqué last week in Belfast...
...Rome last week, in an official Vatican communiqué to the World press, these points were made: first His Holiness is "highly pleased" that the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Edgar Borah (casual Presbyterian) made private protest anent the persecutions to Soviet Acting Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovitch Litvinov. The Vatican further intimated that Pope Pius is "deeply disappointed" because, despite his appeals, no Christian Government whatsoever has made any official, diplomatic protest to Moscow; third, the Vatican intimated that Pope Pius is particularly disappointed with the Government of the Irish Free...
...last week to an order bidding German and Swiss police to arrest on sight one Franz Fischer, prominent a decade ago in the German Communist Party, but of recent years a personage of nebulous though prosperous obscurity. "Franz Fischer has fled from his flat," read a succinct Berlin police communiqué. But a somewhat loquacious official said, without allowing himself to be named in quotation: "He was probably only a fence. The gang must have a big print shop somewhere, with a large staff of experts, or they could never produce such perfect quantity results. They have turned...