Word: communique
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...wore on, the tense anxiety that had preceded the arrival of Radford and Robertson eased away. After several hours of conferences, which were expected to extend into several days, a Chinese Nationalist communiqué glowed that "the conversation was conducted in an atmosphere of great harmony." Taipei officialdom dropped the hostile mood induced by false interpretation of the Radford-Robertson mission. The Communists had shifted the Formosa crisis, but had not achieved any sharp break in relations between the U.S. and the Chinese Nationalists...
...denouncing Nagy and all his works. It accused Nagy of deceiving "the working classes with cheap demogogic promises" which caused them to loll idly "waiting for the plums to drop into their mouths," charged him with "rightist deviationism" and with "encouraging nationalism and chauvinism." The language of the communiqué might have been Rakosi's, but the message was straight from Moscow...
...after all, that is a wonderful experience. When Winston has finished, he turns round to Anthony and says, 'Would you care to say something?' ^Things go on . .. I make a few statesmanlike remarks . . . And when we have solved all the problems of the world . . . the communiqué will arrive. We will correct the grammar. Then Winston will say, 'I don't like the sense in which you have used that word.' . . . And then we all go home...
Mendés advisers worked out a calming communiqué which stated that L'Express had "totally deformed the facts," but Mendes forbade its issuance. While Mendés' harried advisers went back to work, the seconds got together across the street from Maxim's to discuss weapons. At last the advisers produced a new version, criticizing L'Express' "fallacious account," and declaring that the Premier "deplored that inadmissible insinuations be leveled at the professional conscience" of someone who enjoyed the Premier's entire confidence. Faure was mollified, Servan-Schreiber was relieved that...
...Assertiveness. Next day, concerned over an unfavorable European reaction to the truculent tone of the communiqué, Adenauer's Press Chief Felix von Eckardt summoned 125 correspondents and retreated a bit: "The federal government believes that any effective defense of Europe can only take place with the cooperation of France...