Word: communique
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...Russians had insisted on from the opening moment -diplomatic relations-and he had not budged the Russians toward reunification on his terms. "It is certainly not in the Soviet Union's interest to have a reunified Germany in NATO," Khrushchev said bluntly. Even the language of the communiqué emphasized the existence of two Germanys, and the Soviet line that reunification of the two is principally "a national problem of the German people," not something for the Western powers to meddle in. In return, Adenauer had got an oral promise from Bulganin that "before you reach Bonn, action...
...Germans asked the Russians to incorporate both reservations in the communiqué. The Russians, as the Germans had anticipated, refused. So Adenauer put them out unilaterally for the record. The Russians briskly dismissed both. "The [Bonn] Republic is part of Germany," said an official statement distributed by Tass. "Another part of Germany is the [East] German Democratic Republic." Germany's borders were settled at Potsdam, the statement added. There the wartime Allies handed the territories east of the Oder-Neisse line to Poland, pending a final peace treaty...
...from 1950 to 1954 held the job of army commander in chief. Last week the Taipei government abruptly announced that General Sun had resigned his post as Chiang's personal chief of staff. Major Kuo Ting-liang, a member of the general's own staff, said the communiqué, had confessed to working secretly inside the army as a Communist agent, and another half a dozen junior officers were implicated in "an attempt to create an incident of a subversive character." The general, "as an admission of negligence," had handed in his resignation papers. There would...
...swooped on the building and in a cobweb-hung cellar found 45 ammunition boxes and twelve larger cases containing Bren and Sten guns. Atop one case lay a loaded .38 revolver, its owner evidently having recently fled. In the city of Dublin next day, newspaper editors received an official communiqué from the I.R.A.'s "Adjutant General" Diarmid Macdiarmada reporting "a successful raid by a party of ten volunteers, all [of whom] have now been accounted...
...communiqués are grudgingly admired by the British for their scrupulous accuracy. He did not claim credit for a raid on a North Wales army camp two days later by masked men with what sounded like Irish accents. At week's end four young British army officers admitted staging the raid as a hoax...